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Teaching kids hygiene

The Katrin brand is committed to spreading the message of good hand hygiene and has organized a number of events to promote the importance of hand hygiene for all ages. In support of various ongoing activities, Katrin has launched the second edition of Hygiene School Book. The Hygiene School Book 2.0 is an interactive way to teach children the foundations of good hand hygiene. It includes both useful educational information and fun activities. The first edition of the publication received a lot of good feedback from both children and teachers.

Sustainability

WWF ranking

WWF ranked Metsä Group’s tissue and cooking paper business area Metsä Tissue best in the category of public Corporate Responsibility reporting and Environmental Management Systems. Metsä Tissue achieved an impressive result of 86% of the maximum score in this category. The second best tissue producer scored 78%.

Sustainability

Committed to reducing CO2 emissions

Metsä Tissue has been granted a substantial subsidy from the European Commission for our Sustainable Low-Carbon Tissue Manufacturing Project. The optimisation of our heat recovery systems forms part of our Tissue 20 Project, which aims to improve our energy efficiency to a level comparable to 20% of our energy consumption in 2007 by the end of this year. We have already realised over 300 practical actions and thereby achieved an improvement level of 16% with an important positive ecological impact.
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