OREANDA-NEWS. May 31, 2013. Metsa Tissue, part of Metsa Group, has established a new converting and warehousing site in Vorsino, Russia, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network.

“Only in Moscow and St. Petersburg area there are some 30 million people with rapidly rising standard of living. It is estimated that the tissue market in Russia will grow significantly, even more than in Western Europe. This makes us believe strongly in a successful future in Russia,” says CEO Mika Joukio, Metsa Tissue.

Vorsino site is located 90 km from Moscow to south-west, with good connections to Moscow City, St. Petersburg and other main cities. “From this location and with the site’s efficient logistics we can serve our customers quickly and with a wide range of high quality tissue products. We produce our top brands Lambi, Mola and Katrin near our customers,” says Vice President Yuriy Hudziy, Tissue, Russia.

In addition to locally produced goods, Metsa Tissue imports and sells Katrin products and solutions, and SAGA baking and cooking papers in Russia.

Metsa Tissue launched its products on the Russian market in 2005. Metsa Tissue OOO, the company for Russian operations, was established in 2006, and the production started in 2008. In Vorsino, the company introduces the latest, highly modern converting line that doubles the tissue production capacity and enables a larger product variety. Currently Metsa Tissue employs about 110 people in Russia.

Metsa Tissue is a leading tissue paper products supplier to households and professionals in Europe and the world’s leading supplier of baking and cooking papers.