# Metsä Board starts up new extrusion coating line at Husum mill in Sweden

Metsä Board started up a new extrusion coating line at its Husum mill in Sweden in April 2017, following a €38 million investment. The line adds 100,000 tons per year of PE-coated board capacity for food and food service packaging.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-04-30
- Where: Husum mill, Sweden, Sweden
- Value: $42.0M (38.0M EUR)
- Starts operating: Apr 2017
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 100,000 tons per year of PE-coated board
- Products: PE-coated board, folding boxboard
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Metsä Board](https://endata.com/companies/6373.md)
- [Raumaster Paper](https://endata.com/companies/24891.md) (supplier)
- [Extron-Mecanor](https://endata.com/companies/24892.md) (supplier)

## Sources

- [extron.fi](https://www.extron.fi/finnish-extron-mecanor-supplied-extrusion-coating-technology-to-metsa-board-husum-mill-in-sweden/), 2017-06-14: "The biggest folding boxboard producer in Europe, Metsä Board, started up a new extrusion coating line in Husum mill, Sweden, in April 2017."

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