Metsä Board Oyj , previously known as M-real Corporation , is a European producer of fresh fibre paperboards including folding boxboards, food service boards and white kraftliners. It was originally established by G.A. Serlachius, and named Metsä-Serla (Forest Serla). Metsä Board is part of Metsä Group , one of the largest forest industry groups in the world.
6-499: On 29 September 2008, M-Real sold four of its paper mills to South African company, Sappi . Nowadays, Metsä Board focuses on folding boxboards, food service boards and white kraftliners. Metsä Board has altogether seven production units in Finland (Kyro, Tako, Simpele, Äänekoski, Kemi, Joutseno, Kaskinen) and one in Sweden (Husum). In the fall of 2020, Metsä Board announced that it would open
12-597: A competence center in Äänekoski focusing on cardboard and packaging. In the same factory area were housed, among others, Metsä Group's bioproduct factory, cardboard factory, birch veneer factory, wood-based textile fiber test factory and a test factory producing 3D fiber products, which started to operate in May 2022. This Finnish corporation or company article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sappi Sappi Limited , originally incorporated as South African Pulp and Paper Industries Limited in 1936,
18-569: Is a South African pulp and paper company with global operations. S outh A frican P ulp and P aper I ndustries Limited was founded in 1936. The company is now known as Sappi and is headquartered in Johannesburg , It produces and sells commodity paper products , pulp , dissolving pulp , and forest and timber products for Southern Africa and export markets. In 2013, it was the world's largest producer of dissolving pulp. In 2003, Sappi announced that Andre Wagenaar had been appointed as
24-698: The M-real company. In the United States , Sappi closed its Muskegon, Michigan plant in 2009, which was founded in 1899 by the Central Paper Company. In 2011 Sappi announced closure of their Swiss production site. The company's existing kraft pulp plant in Cloquet, Minnesota was replaced by a new mill which began producing dissolving pulp in June 2013. In 1996, Sappi along other 10 main producers of carbonless paper
30-580: The CEO of Sappi's Forest Products Division, with effect from 1 January 2004, when Dr John Job relinquished his responsibilities for the Southern African businesses. As of 1 July 2014, Steve Binnie became Sappi's Chief Executive Officer. His predecessor, Ralph Boettger, resigned for health reasons after serving as CEO from 2007 to 2014. In July 2019, Michael G. Haws was appointed as President and CEO of Sappi North America , succeeding Mark Gardner who retired at
36-692: The end of September 2019. In 1990, Sappi purchased the paper mills of UK Dickinson Robinson Group – Nash Mills, Keynsham Paper Mill and Fife Paper Mills from the asset-stripper Roland Franklin (Pembridge Investments). These mills were subsequently closed by Sappi as were all other acquisitions (Kymmini Oy, Blackburn Mill and Wolvercote Mill) they had made in the UK. On 29 September 2008, Sappi purchased two paper mills in Finland , one in Switzerland and one in Germany from
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