Metsä Fibre Oy, part of the Metsä Group, has made the investment decision to build a new bioproduct mill in Kemi, Finland. For AFRY it means that the previously signed conditional contract will come into force.
AFRY has been awarded with a contract including project management services for the whole mill, detail engineering services for all engineering disciplines for Balance of Plant (BOP) and the digitalisation services of the mill with BIM (Building Information Modelling) and PIM (Process Information Modelling) of the project including establishment of SSOT (Single-Source-of-Truth) concept towards digital twin. AFRY will also provide project management, engineering and site services of the chlorine dioxide plant.
Pulp based products are part of people’s everyday lives. The demand for Nordic softwood pulp continues to grow globally. The growth in demand is driven by megatrends like replacing products made of fossil-based raw materials with wood-based products, discontinuing the use of fossil fuels and increasing the production of renewable energy.
To respond to this demand Metsä Fibre Oy has done the investment decision to build the new bioproduct mill. In Metsä Fibre’s concept the renewable wood raw material and production side streams are used in full as different bioproducts, thus replacing fossil-based materials and fossil fuels. The value of the investment is Euro 1.6 billion and the construction phase will be completed during the 3Q 2023.
The Kemi bioproduct mill will produce some 1.5 million tonnes of softwood and hardwood pulp per year, as well as many other bioproducts. It will also produce 2.0 TWh of renewable electricity per year. The planning of the new bioproduct mill is based on a high degree of environmental, energy and material efficiency.
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