Metsä Fibre: Production at Kemi pulp mill in Finland up and running again
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Metsä Fibre has resumed operations at its Finnish pulp mill in Kemi after more than three months of downtime.
Production has started and will be gradually increased as planned, Metsä announced on 20 June. Metsä Fibre had to stop operations in Kemi in the penultimate week of March after a gas explosion in the evaporation plant.
The damaged parts of the plant were repaired and the company used the time to carry out the annual major maintenance shutdown. At a later date, production had to be stopped again to replace the repaired equipment as good as new.
The Kemi pulp mill is designed for a production capacity of around 1.5 million tonnes per year, including 1 million tonnes of NBSK pulp, 300,000 tonnes of bleached short-fibre sulphate pulp and 180,000 tonnes of unbleached kraft pulp.
