Oy Metsä-Botnia Ab (marketing name Botnia) is Europe’s second largest pulp producer. Botnia’s softwood and hardwood pulps are ideally suited for the production of high-quality printing and writing papers, packaging boards and tissue.
Botnia’s pulp mills are located at Joutseno, Kemi, Rauma and Äänekoski. These mills have a total combined production capacity of 2.5 million tonnes a year of ECF and TCF bleached pulp. We also own a modern saw mill, Svir Timber, in Russia. The company employs over 1,000 people.
About half of our production is sold to the paper mills of Botnia’s owners, while the rest is sold on the market, mainly in Europe. Pulp marketing is handled by Botnia’s own marketing organization and by sales offices in Germany and China.
Botnia’s wood raw material is procured by Metsäliitto Cooperative. When operating at full capacity, Botnia uses over 10 million cubic metres of wood a year. In 2008, 79 per cent of this was domestic wood. Botnia owns around 35,000 hectares of forest in Finland.
Botnia is part of the Metsäliitto Group, whose core activities are the forest industry and trading in wood raw material. Botnia is owned by the Metsäliitto Group (83 %) and UPM-Kymmene Corporation (17%).
