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Metsä Board scores again in climate and water programmes


sustainability by CDP, a non- profit global environmental disclosure platform, by achieving a place on the CDP A List for both climate change and water security. It is the fourth consecutive


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year that Metsä Board has been included on the Water A List and the third consecutive year on the Climate A List. Metsä Board also scored A- in the CDP’s Forest programme. Metsä Board is among the top


27 companies placed on the global Water A List. This is in recognition of Metsä Board’s actions in the last


etsä Board has again been listed as a global leader in corporate


all need to act to combat climate change. Sustainability has to be an integral part of a responsible business and it must lead to concrete actions. I am proud that the work we do at Metsä Board was once again acknowledged by CDP and that we held our A level rating in both Climate and Water programmes.” Metsä Board produces premium


reporting year to manage water more sustainably. Furthermore, Metsä Board is among the top 126 of companies featured on the global Climate A List. The position is a recognition for the company’s activities in cutting


emissions, mitigating climate risks and developing the low- carbon economy. In 2018, more than 7,000 companies disclosed through CDP. Mika Joukio, chief executive of Metsä Board, commented: “We


fresh fibre paperboards including folding boxboards, food service boards and white kraftliners. With about 2,350 employees, its sales in 2018 were €1.8 billion. It is part of the Metsä Group, which focuses on wood supply and forest services, wood products, pulp, fresh fibre paperboards and tissue and cooking papers.


Climate change accolade for Stora Enso


Stora Enso has been top-rated in combatting global warming by CDP, which works to build a sustainable global economy. CDP has included Stora Enso on its new 2018 Climate A List, which


identifies the global companies that are taking leadership in climate action. “We are proud of this


recognition of our long-term work to reduce our emissions,” said


Noel Morrin, EVP for sustainability at Stora Enso. “For over a decade we have been actively reducing the energy intensity of our operations and our dependence on fossil fuels.


Germany’s Feldmuehle to concentrate on speciality papers


German paper maker Feldmuehle GmbH, which was acquired last June by Beteiligungsgesellschaft Kairos Industries AG and in November filed to go into administration, has pulled out of graphic paper manufacturing to concentrate on speciality papers. The company, which has been making paper at its Uetersen site for about 100 years, has shut


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down its graphic paper line and reduced its workforce to around 180. After the company filed to open insolvency proceedings under the German Insolvency Act in November, Dr Dietmar Penzlin was appointed as provisional administrator. Plans to keep the paper maker in business were presented during an


employee meeting on 7 December when a social plan was worked out with the works council. In a statement, the company said: “The restructuring of the company in the context of self-administration provides for all necessary measures to improve the profitability and thus sustainable competitiveness of the company.”


Production of graphic papers has been discontinued with the shut down of Feldmuehle’s PM2 line. “The focus is the concentration on the product sector speciality papers: wet- and alkali-resistant label papers as well as flexible packaging papers,” said the company, which continues to be headed by managing director Heiner Kayser.


In December 2017, Stora Enso became the first forest products company to set ambitious science-based targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout our value chain.”


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