Metsa Tissue's New Website Now Open


ESPOO, Finland, June 18, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- The tissue paper company Metsa Tissue has launched a new website in English, address www.metsatissue.com. The site offers extensive information and news about Metsa Tissue as a company, its products and its brands.

Metsa Tissue is a vigorously developing European consumer goods company whose tissue paper products and baking and cooking papers are used by both households and large-scale consumers. Metsa Tissue's main market is Europe north of the Alps, where the company is the fourth biggest supplier of tissue paper and the market leader in baking and cooking papers. In the Nordic countries, Metsa Tissue is the market leader in tissue paper products.

In 2002, the company had a turnover of EUR 648 million and employed 3,300 people. Metsa Tissue has production facilities in Finland, Sweden, Germany and Poland. Metsa Tissue is part of M-real Corporation and the Metsaliitto Group.

For more information contact: Communications Specialist Lilli Nyman tel. +358 10 469 4191, e-mail: lilli.nyman@metsatissue.com

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