Metsä Spring and Itochu to build textile fibre demo plant in Äänekoski, Finland

Metsä Spring and Itochu established a joint venture to build and operate a €40 million demo plant in Äänekoski, Finland, to produce wood-based textile fibres. The plant will have an annual capacity of about 500 tonnes and is planned to start up in late 2019.

“With the plant, and the demonstration project related to it, we aim to prove the technical feasibility of the new textile fibre production technology.”metsagroup.com

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• metsagroup.comMetsä Group and Itochu establish a joint venture that builds an industrial demo plant to produce wood-based textile fibresOct 1, 2018

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