On 20 March 2015, Metsä Fibre Oy signed a letter of intent for the detailed engineering of its planned bioproduct mill with Sweco Industry Oy and Sweco Rakennetekniikka Oy. Final delivery contracts will be signed if Metsä Fibre decides to build the mill. If the prerequisites for the investment are met, the decision on the construction of the bioproduct mill will be made this spring.
According to the letter of intent, Sweco Industry Oy and Sweco Rakennetekniikka Oy will be responsible for layout, mechanical and piping engineering as well as civil engineering. In the project, Neste Jacobs Oy will be the partner for Sweco. The detailed engineering work will have an employment impact of about 200 person years of which 100 per cent will be of Finnish origin.
Metsä Fibre is planning to build a bio-product mill in the existing mill area in Äänekoski, Finland. When materialized, the approximately EUR 1.1 billion investment would be the largest ever investment in the forest industry in Finland. The new mill is planned to be operational in 2017.
