The main raw material of Metsä Group’s products is wood that has been sourced from sustainably managed forests. Wood is a renewable and recyclable raw material which can be wholly utilised in the production processes of the Group’s different products. By-products generated during manufacture are utilised by the production units themselves and for power production. At the end of their life cycles, products derived from wood can be burned for energy recovery.
Metsä Group’s production units employ Best Available Techniques (BAT) to reduce noise, air and water emissions, and virtually all of the Group’s production units and the majority of its wood supply areas operate certified ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 environmental and quality systems.
The majority of the Group’s products carry a PEFC forest certification label. The label signifies that a certain minimum proportion of a product’s wood content is verifiably sourced from a certified forest, and that all actors throughout the production chain operate a certified wood Chain of Custody system.
The Chain of Custody system enables reliable verification of the share of certified wood contained in each product. The common goal of all Group companies is to increase the proportion of certified fibre contained in their products and the share of forest certification labelled products in their product range.