We constantly seek to reduce the emissions from the manufacturing process

Water emissions

Since the early days of the industrial revolution, papermaking has been one of the industries discharging its effluents to surrounding waterways. Today, however, the situation is very different. All paper manufacturing companies, including Metsä Tissue, are steadily cutting their effluent discharges by using less water in their production processes and by improving effluent treatment.

Production waste

Effluents and de-inking sludge, which is generated in the manufacturing of recycled pulp, are among the direct environmental impacts in tissue paper production. For several years, Metsä Tissue has been actively discovering alternative uses for the production waste in reducing the consumption of fossil fuel based energy and minimising the amount of waste to landfill.

Air emissions

The manufacture of both recycled pulp and tissue paper consumes significant amounts of energy. Production of the power and heat needed in manufacture causes indirect emissions to the air, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), sulphur and nitrogen oxides (SO2 and Nox) .

Transportation emissions

Metsä Tissue's target in logistics is to ensure the highest possible delivery precision to our customers. In order both to serve our customers better and to reduce transportation emissions and costs, Metsä Tissue's mills are located close to the raw materials end users and all transportations are centrally optimized.

MT RMS summary report 2003 - 2005.pdf (15 kb)