Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Materials
Industry
Packaging
Headquarters
Finland FI
Employees
1 855
IPO date
Jan 2, 1996

Metsa Board Oyj makes paperboard used for packaging, not finished consumer goods. Its main products are folding boxboard, food service board, and white kraftliner, which customers turn into cartons, food packages, and other protective packaging. The company sits in the packaging supply chain as a material supplier, selling mainly to packaging converters, brand owners, and food and consumer goods companies.

It makes money by producing and selling these paperboard grades to customers who need a strong, printable, and lightweight packaging material. The business depends on repeat orders from manufacturers that package food, drinks, cosmetics, household products, and similar items. Because packaging is tied to everyday consumption, the company’s products are used across many stable end markets.

What makes Metsa Board different is its focus on fresh fibre paperboard, which is made from virgin wood fibre rather than recycled material. That gives the board a clean appearance, good stiffness, and food-contact suitability that many packaging users value. In simple terms, the company earns its place by turning forest-based raw material into specialized paperboard that other businesses use to make premium packaging.

Metsa Board Oyj Investor Relations

Address
Revontulenpuisto 2
Espoo, Etela-Suomen
Finland

Business Segments

Paperboard

Makes folding boxboard and white kraftliner used for packaging food, cosmetics, retail goods, and other consumer products. The company turns fresh wood fibre into lightweight boards that packaging makers print, cut, and fold into boxes and carton materials.

Customers

Packaging companies, brand owners, converters, and retailers that need materials for cartons, sleeves, and corrugated packaging.

Revenue Model

Sells paperboard to customers under supply contracts and spot orders, with pricing based on product grade, volume, and market conditions.

Market pulp

Produces chemical pulp from wood and sells part of it outside the company. This pulp is a raw material used to make paperboard and other paper products.

Customers

Paper and board makers, pulp traders, and other industrial buyers that use pulp as an input for their own manufacturing.

Revenue Model

Earns revenue by selling pulp on the market, with prices set by contract terms and prevailing pulp market prices.

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Management

Mr. Mika Joukio M.B.A., M.Sc., M.Sc. (Eng.)

Chief Executive Officer

Biography unavailable

Mr. Henri Sederholm

Chief Financial Officer

Biography unavailable

Mr. Harri Pihlajaniemi

Senior Vice President of Production & Technology

Biography unavailable

Ms. Katri Sundström M.Sc.(Econ.)

Vice President of Investor Relations

Biography unavailable

Eeva Impio-Loimaala

General Counsel

Biography unavailable

Mr. Jussi Noponen M.Sc. (Tech)

Senior Vice President of Sales & Supply Chain

Biography unavailable

Ms. Camilla Wikstrom

Senior Vice President of Human Resources

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Mr. Markku Leskela

Senior Vice President of Development

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