26-Feb-2025 Metsä Group starts pre-engineering of Kuura textile fibre mill Metsä Group takes a big step forward in the development of Kuura and starts pre-engineering the first commercial Kuura textile…
10-Feb-2025 Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre shows competitive greenhouse gas emission level Metsä Group has completed a new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of its Kuura textile fibre. The assessment shows that Kuura’s…
26-Mar-2024 Metsä Group to launch a pre-study for a Kuura textile fibre mill – the new mill would increase the refinement of pulp in Finland Metsä Group will launch a pre-study for the first commercial mill producing the Kuura textile fibre. Kuura is one of…
30-Nov-2023 Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre gained important recognition in sustainability matters Kuura textile fibre, which is made out of softwood pulp from the Äänekoski bioproduct mill, received a ‘Green Shirt’ rating…
01-Nov-2023 Metsä Spring hires textile fibre industry expert Kishore Shouche to strengthen the Kuura development team Kishore Shouche has extensive industry experience from both pilot and commercial textile fibre production, adding critical technical insights to Metsä…
26-Jun-2023 Rami Karhu joins Metsä Spring to lead concept design work for a first commercial Kuura textile fibre plant With his extensive background working with cellulose derivatives and bringing projects from idea to full-scale production, Karhu will lead a…
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 Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre achieved an improved scoring based on the audit arranged by not-for-profit environmental organisation Canopy. The…
01-Nov-2022 GRETE partners on a forest tour Metsä Spring has a broad presence in various R&D projects related to wood-based textile fibres. One of such projects is…
18-Oct-2022 Kuura taking part in Wonders of Wood and Beyond podcast We were happy to be in the Wonders of wood and beyond – a podcast series of the Finnish Forest…
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 Kuura fibres find uses in various textile applications. In addition to being applicable as such, the fibres can also be…