Niklas von Weymarn

Today we celebrate International Day of Forests! 🌲 🌲 🌲

What do #forests mean to you? At Metsä Spring, we believe that forests are a key to a #sustainable future. 🌍

Let’s celebrate the power of forests and commit to making the bioeconomy stronger than ever! 💚

ExpandFibre stimulated Metsä Group's R&D investment ExpandFibre programme started in 2020 to accelerate the research and development of wood- and straw-based bioproducts. Where are we now?

The ExpandFibre programme helped Metsä Group double R&D investment in innovative wood-based bioproducts to €54M over 4 years.

The programme’s impacts look set to be seen for years to come. Read more in our latest blog

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Metsä Group signs an agreement on EU funding for the Muoto mill In October 2024, Metsä Group announced that it had been invited to negotiations on partial funding from the EU Innovation Fund for the first Muoto[TM] packaging

EU Innovation Fund Grant Agreement signed! 🚀 🇪🇺

Metsä Group has signed a Grant Agreement for up to €86.5M to support the potential first commercial Muoto mill in Rauma, #Finland.

#Investment & #business launch decisions are conditional upon the achievement of several ambitious milestones.

Director, Business Development Metsä Spring Metsä Group is a successful forest industry group with roots in the Finnish forest - Our parent company is a cooperative of over 90,000 forest owners. Metsä Group’s innovation company Met...

💼 Metsä Spring is hiring! 💼

We're looking for a new Director, Business Development to join our Kuura textile fibre team to contribute to various business, market and customer-related development tasks! Read more about the role below.

Apply before March 14th!

🚨 Big news towards more sustainable #textiles!

Metsä Group has begun pre-engineering for the first commercial Kuura textile fibre mill. 👕♻️

Kuura transforms Finnish wood into high-value fibre, without fossil fuels. Studies show its climate impact is much lower than competing fibres. 💚

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A different day at work 😊

Metsä Group’s Kuura textile shows competitive GHG levels to existing commercial fibers A recent LCA shows that compared to viscose, lyocell and cotton fibers, large-scale production of Kuura would result in less environmental impact.

Did you know that large-scale production of wood-based #textile fibres like Metsä Group’s softwood pulp-based Kuura have a lower environmental impact than comparable man-made cellulosic products? 🤔 🌲 🧵

Read more in CompositesWorld 👇

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#sustainabletextiles #LCA

A very nice evening celebrating a closed funding round for Adsorbi 🙏🏻👍🏻🇸🇪🇫🇮

Last Sunday orienteering and now skiing. Not bad 😅 #capitalregion 🇫🇮

Check out the lamp! 😅

Indeed promising results for our Kuura textile fibre. Still work to be done, but this gives a very nice boost 😊🌲✨

New funding for air filter made from trees Swedish startup Adsorbi has secured €1,000,000 in funding to develop their patented, cellulose-based air purification material. The funds will be used to construct a pilot plant in Gothenburg, develo...

A purifying indoor air filter made from trees? 🤔

You bet! Metsä Spring portfolio company Adsorbi has secured €1M funding to develop its patented, cellulose-based air purification material 🌲 🌲 🌲

Read more in Air Quality News ⤵️

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#woodinnovation #airquality #startup

First orienteering of the year in minus two degrees. Lenses a little foggy but I think I found all the controls (except for the one that was in the wrong place). 😅

This feels like winter 😊 Greetings from Äänekoski 🇫🇮

This is good! 👍🏻

Good work Team Adsorbi. Looking forward to the pilot phase 😊🇫🇮🇸🇪

Exciting news! Metsä Spring is now on Bluesky and Threads. 🦋

Follow us for updates about our exciting internal development projects, such as Muoto and the Kuura textile fibre, as well as updates and news from our portfolio companies!

#woodinnovation #forest #circulareconomy