Aiming for fossil-free mills

Energy usage is one of the most important sustainable development topics in Metsä Tissue’s operations. Metsä Tissue, and Metsä Group as a whole, are aiming for fossil free mills by 2030. This means that fossil fuels will no longer be used in production, and thus no fossil fuel-based carbon dioxide emissions would be generated.
  • 100

    %

    Target 2030: fossil free energy (scope 1 & 2)

  • 54

    %

    share of fossil free total energy in 2022 (scope 1 & 2)

  • -26

    %

    reduction from 2018 fossil carbon emissions (scope 1 & 2)

Performance

  2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
Scope 1 Share of renewables 20 % 19 % 18 % 17% 16%
Scope 1 ktCO2 190 203 206 224 227
Scope 2 Share of renewables 25 % 24 % 19 % 21 % 19 %
Scope 2 ktCO2 307 289 261 282 447
% reduction from 2018 CO2 fossil emissions -26 % -27 % -31 % -25 % base year

Sustainability cases

Building a biopower plant in Metsä Tissue’s Katrinefors mill area in Sweden in 2018 has changed the energy usage of not only of the mill, but of the entire town of Mariestad.

Read more about the biopower plant here. 

In 2021 we announced that our Mänttä mill in Finland no longer uses peat for energy production. Renewable wood fuels, such as bark and other by-products of wood production, have replaced peat. The change to using biomass has been significant for reducing the fossil emissions of the mill.

Read more about the peat phase-out here.

In 2022 we continued the work away from fossil fuels in our Kreuzau mill by testing biofuels to replace coal. The investigation continues in 2023.

Future Mill in Mariestad

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Peat phase-out at Mänttä

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