Metsä Group’s comparable operating result for January–December 2024 was EUR 203 million

Pactiv Evergreen announced that the Company has made the difficult decision to exit the coated groundwood paper business. As a result, the Company will permanently cease production of coated groundwood paper at its Pine Bluff, AR location. The Company will continue to strategically invest in the Pine Bluff mill, which will remain an essential facility in the Pactiv Evergreen operations network, serving the fiber-based beverage packaging market. Pactiv Evergreen will work directly with our coated groundwood customers to meet their product needs and support their transition to new suppliers until production ends in Q4. The Company expects to complete the closure by October 31, 2021, with shipments continuing until inventory is depleted.

Metsä Group has committed to the Circular Economy Green Deal. In the voluntary national initiative led by the Finnish Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, actors set targets for 2035 and commit to actions that promote a low-carbon circular economy. We are committed to investing in research and development related to the further processing of our industrial side streams. Our goal is that three significant products or solutions based on Metsä Group’s side streams will be commercialized by 2035. The product or solution can be commercialized either by Metsä Group or by one of our partners, however, in such a way that Metsä Group has played a significant role in the development work. Commercialization in this context means annual sales of at least hundreds of tonnes or equivalent commercial agreements. Our second goal is to reduce our energy production based on the combustion of our side streams so that in 2035 our annual bioenergy production will be 1,000 gigawatt hours less than in 2025.

•The U.S. imposes final duties on Canadian softwood lumber, following failed talks to end the decades-long dispute between the two countries. •The U.S. Department of Commerce announces slightly lower initial duties for Canadian producers West Fraser Timber and Canfor Corp., with combined anti-dumping and countervailing duties of 23.6% and 20.5% respectively, and maintains rates for Resolute Forest Products. •Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the U.S. is confident the WTO, which may eventually rule on the dispute, would take its side; the DoC accuses Canada of unfairly subsidizing and dumping softwood lumber, a charge Canada denies.