Metsä Board, a Metsä Group company and a leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboard, has published its sustainability targets for 2030.
Avoidance of fossil fuels
Among other things, the company wants to achieve the following in cartonboard mills by 2030 no longer use fossil fuels and fossil CO2 emissions completely. This ambitious target relates to emissions from both the company's own energy production (scope 1) and purchased energy (scope 2). Currently, 82 % of the energy used by Metsä Board's paperboard mills comes from non-fossil energy sources.
In addition, Metsä Board intends to Water consumption per tonne produced by 30 % reduce and increase energy efficiency by at least 10 % by 2030 compared to 2018. These points will also play an important role in realising the goal of no longer using fossil fuels in cartonboard mills.
„The new goals convey our commitment to combating climate change in line with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Of course, this cannot be done without investment. Our recently published plan to modernise Metsä Board's pulp mill in Husum is an important step on our way to becoming completely independent of fossil fuels in our production.“
Mika Joukio, CEO of Metsä Board.
Certified raw materials
The main raw material used in Metsä Board's paperboard production is renewable and 100 % traceable wood from sustainably managed northern European forests. Metsä Board has set a target of sourcing at least 90 % of total wood raw materials from certified sources by 2030. In 2018, the proportion of certified wood raw materials within the company totalled 79 %.
Metsä Board is a Metsä Group company that already acts as an important CO2 sink, as its manufacturing processes already bind more CO2 than it emits. Metsä Board's sustainability targets are based on the Metsä Group's strategic sustainability goals for 2030.
You can find more information about sustainability at Metsä Board and all the new sustainability targets for 2030 on the company's website: http://www.metsaboard.com/sustainability/pages/Sustainability-targets.com
Source: Metsä Board
