Metsä Fibre to Discontinue Lumber Production at Kyrö, Finland Sawmill in Summer 2022

Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, announced today (3-7-22) that it has started negotiations and plans to discontinue the lumber production in Kyrö, Finland in the summer of 2022. The production stop will affect all of the sawmill’s 73 employees.

In a statement, Ismo Nousiainen, CEO of Metsä Fibre said, “The Kyrö sawmill has reached the end of its technical service life, which is why we’ve initiated plans to close down its operations.”

The annual production capacity of the Kyrö sawmill is approximately 230 thousand m3 pine lumber, and the annual wood consumption is approximately 450 thousand m3.


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