MM Kotkamills Officially Opens New Sheeting Centre in Kotka, Finland

(l-r) Kotka Mayor Esa Sirviö and and MM Kotkamills Chairman of the Board, Niilo Pöyhönen, cut the ribbon to officially open the new Sheeting Centre in Kotka, Finland.

Aug. 28, 2024 - MM Kotkamills on Aug. 27 held an inauguration ceremony for the official opening of its new Sheeting Centre in Kotka, Finland.

The new sheeting facility sits next to Kotkamills' board mill, which produces virgin fibre cartonboard (FBB), food service board with dispersion barriers (FSB) and saturating kraft paper (SBK) on two modern machines. The mill has the capacity to produce 585,000 tonnes per year of board and paper.

With two state-of-the-art sheet cutters and related automation, the new EUR 30 million Sheeting Centre will provide further processing of cartonboard to strengthen MM Kotkamills' position as a supplier of cartonboard sheets in the European market.

"Our new Sheeting Centre and its modern technology will enable automated processing of cartonboard reels from production to sheeting," said Niilo Pöyhönen, Chairman of the Board of MM Kotkamills, who has been actively involved in the Sheeting Centre project. "We will be able to serve our customers faster and ensure even better quality of the cartonboard as the sheeting will take directly after production and there will be no need to transport the reels outside the mill for sheeting."

The official opening ceremony of the Centre was attended by people involved in the construction project from the City of Kotka, partners and MM Kotkamills. The ribbon was cut by Esa Sirviö, Kotka Mayor, and Niilo Pöyhönen, MM Kotkamills Chairman of the Board.

Mayor Sirviö said, "The City of Kotka is delighted with this significant investment by the Austrian MM Group in a board and paper mill in our city. The city was once built around this mill, and the mill has been a driving force for more than 150 years in the transformation of the region into a vibrant neighborhood."

MM Kotkamills' Sheeting Centre employs around 30 people.

MM Group, which acquired Kotkamills in 2021, is a leading global producer of cartonboard and folding cartons, while also offering kraft papers and uncoated fine papers for various end applications.

SOURCE: MM Group