Metsä Spring

Metsä Spring is the innovation company of Metsä Group, the Finnish forest industry group. Its mandate is the development of new products based on wood and other renewable materials, with a stated emphasis on alternatives to fossil-based materials. The company sits alongside research and development activity within Metsä Group and works on applications outside the group's established product lines of pulp, paperboard, tissue and wood products.

Technical domains span wood-based materials, biomaterials, renewable materials and forest-based raw material utilisation, including 3D product development. One announced project is a novel wood-based 3D product, developed jointly with Valmet, intended to explore new uses for forest-based raw materials. Partnerships of this kind are a recurring feature of the company's approach: projects are executed with industrial collaborators rather than solely in-house.

Geographically, Metsä Spring is anchored in the Nordic region, with reach extended through Metsä Group businesses, which serve customers worldwide. The industry context is the conversion of forest-based feedstock into higher-value materials - a strategic response to demand for renewable substitutes in sectors historically supplied by petrochemicals. Funding, stage and team size are not disclosed.