A deal has been struck to build the UK鈥檚 largest tissue paper mill on a 211-acre site in Goole in east Yorkshire.
Subject to planning approval, Finnish loo聽roll聽manufacturer Mets盲 Tissue has agreed to buy the site from property developer Wykeland Group.
The development is said to be worth 鈥渉undreds of millions of pounds鈥� 鈥� 拢500m or more 鈥撀爋ver the next decade, with the facility being completed in phases.
Up to 45% of tissue products are currently imported into the UK and Ireland. Mets盲 Tissue aims to replace almost half of the imported products with local British production, using fresh fibre pulp as the main raw material from Scandinavian forests.
The Goole mill would have a production capacity for 240,000 tonnes of tissue products a year, increasing the UK鈥檚 self-sufficiency by more than 30%.
Esa Kaikkonen, CEO of Mets盲 Tissue, said: 鈥淕oole is the perfect location for this proposed investment. The Humber region provides a crucial gateway to the whole of the United Kingdom and the region鈥檚 ambitions to bring cutting-edge green technology and jobs to the UK matches our ambitions in clean, sustainable manufacturing.鈥�
Mets盲 Tissue currently operates nine mills across Europe. The planned Goole mill would be the company鈥檚 biggest in terms of scale of investment and production, although its brands 鈥揕ambi, Serla, Tento and Mola 鈥� are not household names in the UK.
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