Reporters’ Notebook: The 10 Most Overlooked bioeconomy stories of the week

From Finland comes news that Metsä Fibre tapped AFRY for project management and engineering services assignment for a new bioproduct mill in Kemi. Metsä Fibre’s planned Kemi bioproduct mill would produce 1.5 million tonnes of softwood and hardwood pulp a year as well as numerous other bioproducts. The starting point for the planning of the new bioproduct mill has been a high level of environmental, energy and materials efficiency. The mill would not use any fossil fuels at all, and its electricity self-sufficiency rate would be 250 per cent. Metsä Group expects to be ready to make a decision on this approximately EUR 1.5 billion mill investment in the autumn of 2020.

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