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Kuura taking part in Wonders of Wood and Beyond podcast

18-Oct-2022 Press release

We were happy to be in the Wonders of wood and beyond – a podcast series of the Finnish Forest Products Engineers’ Association. In the episode 6, Redesigning the Textile Industry, Finnish bio-based textile innovations are introduced and the history of manmade cellulosic fibres is reviewed, our Kuura fibre being part of it.

Please click here to listen to the podcast.

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26-Mar-2024

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30-Nov-2023

Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre gained important recognition in sustainability matters

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01-Nov-2023

Metsä Spring hires textile fibre industry expert Kishore Shouche to strengthen the Kuura development team

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26-Jun-2023

Rami Karhu joins Metsä Spring to lead concept design work for a first commercial Kuura textile fibre plant

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24-Mar-2023

New development stage at Metsä Group’s demo plant for the Kuura® textile fibre

Metsä Group’s innovation company Metsä Spring is developing a new method for using Metsä Group’s softwood pulp to produce the…

09-Nov-2022

Kuura® textile fibre from Metsä Group strengthens score in Canopy’s 2022 Hot Button Ranking

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01-Nov-2022

GRETE partners on a forest tour

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18-Oct-2022

Kuura taking part in Wonders of Wood and Beyond podcast

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30-Sep-2022

Kuura as finalist in the Metsä360 competition

We are proud to share that our Kuura textile fibre has been selected to be a finalist in the Metsä360…

01-Aug-2022

New application studies with Kuura fibres

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01-Jun-2022

Kuura textile fibre featured in Scandinavian MIND

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16-Mar-2022

New video about Metsä Group’s textile fibre Kuura

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15-Feb-2022

Baltic Sea-friendly garments using Kuura textile fibre

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16-Nov-2021

Market testing of Kuura textile fibre is progressing

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15-Nov-2021

Kuura fibre awarded green shirt in Canopy’s Hot Button Ranking

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20-Aug-2021

First CanopyStyle audit completed for Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre

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18-May-2021

Very good sustainability results for Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre

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19-Apr-2021

Students of JAMK University of Applied Sciences participate in the production of Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre

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16-Mar-2021

Metsä Group’s new textile fibre is Kuura

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03-Sep-2020

Production started at unique textile fibre demo plant

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18-Oct-2018

Construction of the textile fibre demo plant has begun

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01-Oct-2018

Metsä Group builds an industrial demo plant to produce wood-based textile fibres

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