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We invest in and support potential sustainable innovations and technologies that find new purposes and higher value for Nordic wood. Part of Metsä Group.
🎄Holiday vibes are officially on! Today’s office dress code said it all 🎅🤶 Huge points to the most colourful colleagues from Strategy & Investments (now including Metsä Spring!) 👏

Wishing everyone a peaceful #holiday season and all the best for the new year. See you in 2026! 🎆🍾
December 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
From forest to fresh food, without plastic. 🌲🌲🌲

Metsä Spring expands award-winning Muoto Fibre Packaging with new wood fibre punnets for fruits, berries & veg. 🍇🍓

✅ PPWR-ready
✅ Recyclable and plastic-free
✅ Market testing starts Jan 2026

Read more: shorturl.at/iUGDG

#sustainablepackaging
Metsä Spring developed a punnet for fresh fruits, berries and vegetables
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December 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The house was full yesterday when the annual Spruce (Christmas Tree) Party was held at the Metsä Group head office in Espoo, Finland.🌲

Most of the guests were cooperative owner-members and their families living nearby.

#community
December 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Innovation at scale in Sweden 🇸🇪

Metsä Tissue has started full-scale production at its modernised Mariestad mill, powered by next-gen tissue #tech, smart automation & a €370M investment.

Faster, more efficient, more sustainable local production for Scandinavia. 💪

🎥 Time-lapse video:

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Timelapse of Future mill in Mariestad
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December 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
In our final Advent reveal, we celebrate a remarkable year of achievements for Metsä Group’s internal development projects. 🌲💡

In challenging times, smart, science-driven innovation is how we build a stronger economic and environmental future. So let’s unwrap a few highlights. 🎁

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Portfolio of investments and development projects | Metsä Spring
Today, our Advent reveal unwraps some highlights in wood-based innovation from the year, and celebrates the achievements of our portfolio companies! 🎁 🎉 Adsorbi, our first Swedish startup investment...
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December 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
At this year's World Expo Osaka, Metsä Spring showcased its #forest based #innovations at the Nordic Pavilion. 🇯🇵🇫🇮

Highlight: Kuura textile fibre, presented as prototype Saunawear blending Finnish #sauna culture with Japanese shinrin-yoku.

WWD Japan just wrote an update!

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フィンランドの森から生まれたサステナブル素材を北欧館で学ぶ【ライター橋長の万博回顧(2)】 - WWDJAPAN
184日の会期中に2900万人以上が訪れ、終盤は熱狂の渦に包まれた大阪・関西万博の閉幕から1カ月半。なぜ、多くの人が万博に魅力に惹かれたのか。異国の文化と最新の産業技術に触れられ、非日常を体験できる醍醐味だけでなく、会場内での出会いや感動、サプライズが多くの来場者の心をとりこにしたのだと思う。万博ボランティアとしても参加し、会場には取材とプライベートも含めて計29回足を運んだ関西在住ライターの筆者...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Over the year, we’ve been bringing you a series of deep dives shining a light on wood-based #innovations through Metsä Spring’s portfolio companies and development projects. Today it’s the turn of... 🥁 🥁 🥁

Muoto Fibre Packaging 🎉

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#packging #foodservice
#ppwr #muoto #sustainablepackaging #circulareconomy #biomaterials #3dfibre #packaging | Metsä Spring
Over the year, we’ve been bringing you a series of deep dives shining a light on wood-based (potential) innovations through Metsä Spring’s portfolio companies and development projects. Today it’s the ...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Forests give us more than raw materials; they also help power Europe’s green transition 🇪🇺💚

From wood-based textiles to sustainable tyres and even batteries, 8 great examples are seen in The Finnish #Forest Association's article below.

Some of wood's applications might surprise you! 👇

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These 8 innovations are already implementing the European bioeconomy strategy - Forest.fi
On November 27, 2025, the European Union published a new bioeconomy strategy that emphasizes the importance of the forest industry in Europe's green transition.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
We celebrated Finland’s Independence Day with a nice reminder of how tradition & #innovation can meet. 🇫🇮✨

Member of Parliament Anne Kalmari’s dress for the President's Palace Reception was decorated with a piece made using Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre. 🌲 ➡️ 🧵 ➡️ 👗

(🇫🇮 news) 👉 shorturl.at/0o0cb
Äänekoskella valmistettu Kuura-tekstiilikuitu päätyi mutkien kautta kansanedustaja Anne Kalmarin Linnan juhlien asun koristeeksi
Keskustan kivijärveläinen kansanedustaja Anne Kalmari pukeutuu itsenäisyyspäivän Linnan juhliin metsänvihreään kierrätysmekkoon, jonka yläosan oksamaisessa koristeessa on hyödynnetty Metsä Groupin Kuu...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Today, our Advent reveal unwraps some highlights in wood-based #innovation from the year, and celebrates the achievements of our portfolio companies! 🎁 🎉

What a remarkable year of progress toward the circular bioeconomy! 👏

Read more 👉 rb.gy/kczuxc

#startups #technology #circulareconomy
Portfolio of investments and development projects | Metsä Spring
Today, our Advent reveal unwraps some highlights in wood-based innovation from the year, and celebrates the achievements of our portfolio companies! 🎁 🎉 Adsorbi, our first Swedish startup investment...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
At this week's SKF Friction Fighting Summit, in Gothenburg, Metsäliitto Cooperative Board Member Eija Pitkänen spoke on #climate action in uncertain times while wearing a denim jacket made from Metsä Group’s Kuura #textile fibre. 🌲

We're pleased to hear the jacket caught plenty of attention! ⭐
December 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🌟 Exciting news! Metsä Group is in the top 100 most innovative companies and won a Special Award for “Open Innovation to Drive Industrial Renewal” at the Corporate Startup Stars Competition, organised by ICC & Mind the Bridge.

#innovation #startup #forest
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We did it! 🌟

Muoto, part of Metsä Spring, won ScanStar 2025 for our Twin Uncoated Fibre solution – a #recyclable, resource-efficient alternative for #food #packaging.

Huge thanks to Pentagon Design and our amazing team, especially Tarja Heikkilä, for making this happen 👏

Next stop: WorldStar! 🌍✨
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
🎄 Holiday season is near! Time for our 1st Advent reveal! 🥁

Finland’s forests hold 71B trees, and 17% are spruce. 🌲🌲🌲

That’s potentially 12,000,000,000 #Christmas trees growing right here in #Finland 🇫🇮 🤯

A festive reminder of our forests' abundance and why we innovate with nature, not against it.
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Wow! 💃 Our dress made mainly using Kuura textile fibre was very close to the center of attention, when the EU's new bioeconomy strategy was announced today by Commissioner Jessika Roswall. Kudos to her for wearing it at the press event 💪🏻🙏🏻

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#EU #bioeconomy #climate #innovation #textiles
Today is an important milestone for Europe’s forest-based bioeconomy! The new EU 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 recognizes the strategic importance of our sector and the role it plays for… | Tytti Peltonen
Today is an important milestone for Europe’s forest-based bioeconomy! The new EU 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 recognizes the strategic importance of our sector and the role it plays for Europe’s autonomy by re...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Want to join an exciting #biomaterials #startup innovating alternatives to fossil-based materials from #forest industry side streams?

Metsä Spring portfolio company Boreal Bioproducts is #hiring an application developer for a new animal-feed ingredient.

Check out the role & apply ⤵️

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Boreal Bioproducts hiring APPLICATION LEAD, ANIMAL FEED in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland | LinkedIn
Posted 12:07:37 PM. Boreal Bioproducts is a biorefinery startup doing hot water extraction on woody side streams and…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Congrats to Metsä Spring portfolio company Fiberwood on its selection in the European Commission’s newest LIFE portfolio! 👏 🎉

Fiberwood’s LIFEMODWISE project is among the 132 funded initiatives that advance the #EU’s #climate, energy, and #environmental goals. 🇪🇺💚

Read more 👇

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LIFE 3.0 - LIFE Project Public Page
LIFE 3.0 - LIFE Project Public Page
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November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#Finland stands to gain, and potentially lead, as the #EU prepares its renewed #bioeconomy strategy. 💪 🇫🇮

So says Metsä Spring CEO Niklas von Weymarn's recently published opinion piece in Maaseudun Tulevaisuus, one of Finland's leading newspapers. 📰

Full article (in Finnish) ⤵️

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Lukijalta: Suomi hyötyy EU:n vahvasta biotalousstrategiasta
Ennakkotietojen mukaan tuleva biotalousstrategia ohjaa biomassojen käyttöä kohti suurempaa arvonluontia ja vahvistamaan Euroopan kilpailukykyä, kirjoittaa Metsä Spring Oy:n toimitusjohtaja Niklas von ...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Paper360° has released its annual Top 50 Power List in the pulp, paper, and packaging industry. This year's list includes Metsä Group’s CEO Jussi Vanhanen and SVP R&D Katariina Kemppainen. 👏

See the full list below👇

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#forestry #industry #packaging #leadership
Paper360°’s 2025 Power List – Paper 360
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November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Our Muoto Fibre #Packaging's Twin 2-in-1 fibre-based take-away concept was piloted in 10 Pikante restaurants with great results: strong feedback, quick adoption, and clear love for Finnish, #sustainable design. 💚🇫🇮

Next up: a new hinged-lid lunch box planned for testing next autumn 🍁

#foodservice
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
SLUSH week is here! 🇫🇮

Yesterday, Metsä Spring’s Erik Kolehmainen joined the jury for the Nature & Forestry Pitching Competition at Y Science 2025. Great pitches and exciting forestry innovations on display! 👏

#SLUSH2025 #startup #innovation
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM
We're proud to see Metsä Spring portfolio company Adsorbi featured on Ny Teknik’s 33-list 2025, highlighting Sweden’s most innovative #tech #startups. 👏

Their bio-based material offers an ecological air purification solution. 🌬️

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Stora listan: Här är Sveriges bästa teknikstartups – ”Internationell potential”
Stora listan: Ny Teknik utser årets 33 mest innovativa svenska teknikstartups • För första gången sedan starten 2008 finns två enhörningar med bland bolagen.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Finland attracts talent turning #forests into #innovation 🌱

Tainise Lourençon at Metsä Spring portfolio company Boreal Bioproducts transforms forestry side‑streams into #sustainable materials for cosmetics and chemicals.

Watch her story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swk4...

#bioeconomy
Tainise Lourençon turns forestry side streams into sustainable solutions
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November 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Part of our Muoto team was at PackSummit 2025 in Hämeenlinna, Finland yesterday, showcasing the novel wood-based Muoto #packaging solution. 🇫🇮

Many great discussions around the future of packaging and how #renewable materials can play a stronger role in the transition toward #circularity! ♻️📦
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Metsä Spring portfolio company FineCell is demonstrating that ecologically-minded products can also meet the high-performance requirements demanded by personal care products and other consumer goods. 💚 👇

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#biomaterials #circulareconomy #cellulose
#cellulose #finecell #nanocellulose #sustainableinnovation #greenchemistry #cleanbeauty #biobasedmaterials #circulareconomy #deeptech | FineCell
✨ The Beauty of Clarity — What Makes FineCell’s #Cellulose Nanofibers Unique? 💡 Not all cellulose nanofibers are created equal. At FineCell, we’ve developed a clean, energy efficient, and highly scala...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM