Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, announced on 1 December 2020 that it had signed an agreement to sell a 30 percent stake in its Husum pulp mill in Sweden to the Swedish forest owners’ cooperative (ekonomisk förening) Norra Skog.
The transaction was completed on 4 January 2021, and its impacts will be included in Metsä Board’s financial reporting as of the January–March 2021 interim report.
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