Metsä Board’s eight sustainability targets guide our daily work and actions. We focus on improving the efficiency of our use of materials, energy and water, and work to ensure a safe and ethical business environment.

We are also committed to the Science Based Targets initiative to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to meet the goal of the Paris Agreement: limiting global warming to less than two degrees.

Metsä Board’s operations create economic and social value to stakeholders at a local, national and international level. We generate employment opportunities, contribute to the livelihood of communities, add to the value of national exports and offer safe products that can reduce dependence on fossil-based resources.

At Metsä Board we see the well-being of our personnel as essential, and we continuously develop and promote occupational health and safety as well as well-being. Safety at work is our top priority. We closely monitor and report on sickness absenteeism and accident rates throughout Metsä Board, to assess progress towards our ambitious targets. This enables us to promptly identify and address any issues that might threaten our employees’ safety or work capacity.

The key elements of our efforts to enhance safety at work involve encouraging the right attitude and implementing proactive measures. It is vital to us that our employees come to work healthy and leave work healthy every day. Good management lays the foundation for well-being at work and healthy workplace communities. Common practices and systems applied throughout Metsä Board support our safety management work and enhance job satisfaction.

Metsä Board is among the top companies to have received a place on the CDP’s Climate A list and Water A list. A place on the both lists is recognition of the measures Metsä Board has taken to reduce climate and water risks in its operations, and to develop low-carbon solutions and responsible water use.

At Metsä Board we focus on improving the efficiency of our material, energy and water usage, and we constantly aim to increase the share of renewable energy as part of our energy consumption.

Since 2009 we have reduced emissions of fossil carbon dioxide from our production processes by -47% per product tonne and improved our energy efficiency by 10.2%. Our process water use has decreased by -17% per product tonne over the period 2010-2017.

Product safety is a non-negotiable and essential part of any packaging or food service material and a priority for all Metsä Board operations. To ensure consistent and high-level product safety, transparent actions and detailed information from all parties throughout the supply chain is required. Metsä Board is actively following the ever-developing regulatory requirements and is responsive to any specific customer demands.

At Metsä Board we aim to continuously improve our operations. This work is supported by the various management systems covering quality, environmental impacts, product safety, energy efficiency and occupational health and safety. Management systems assuring the origin of wood and chain of custody procedures enable us to fully trace the origin of all of the wood raw material used within Metsä Board.

We want to increase understanding of our economic, social and environmental interactions and impacts. We believe in transparency in the dialogue with our stakeholders, and regularly report on our business and activities in Metsä Board’s Annual Report, as well as in Metsä Group’s Sustainability Report.

Our product-specific environmental data is made available through Paper Profile declarations. These paper profiles are a standardised tool used by the manufacturers of paper and board products to communicate the environmental performance of individual products.

The climatic impact of our individual products is reported in our carbon footprint calculations, which have been conducted since 2007. These calculations adhere to the Carbon Footprint Framework for Paper and Board Products developed by the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI).