Metsä Tissue uses chemicals to improve the efficiency of its manufacturing processes. One example is the soap used during the de-inking of recovered paper. We also use chemicals to achieve certain desired qualities in the end product. The most important of these are wet-strength adhesive, which gives paper towels their requisite strength, and silicon, which gives baking and cooking papers their non-stick surface.
All the chemicals used in our products and production processes are safe for people and the environment. They fulfil the environmental criteria of the Nordic Swan and EU Flower eco-labels. The chemicals used in our baking and cooking products also fulfil the criteria issued for food contact materials, including those set forth by Germany’s BfR (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) and USA’s FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration).
We purchase chemicals only from suppliers that conduct their business in a responsible way, manage their corporate responsibility activities systematically, and share their data on products and performance openly and reliably. We hold regular discussions with them to verify their REACH* preregistration and registration status.
Our mill personnel are trained for handling chemicals in a safe and proper way.
*) REACH is a new European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use. It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances.