The Niemenranta site owned by M-real in Tampere, Finland, is a valuable industrial heritage environment. All industrial activity at the old pulp and sawmill site has now ceased with work now underway, since spring 2008, to make the mill site suitable for residential purposes.
The old dumping site of the former sawmill at Niemenranta is being totally removed and the site’s contaminated soil cleaned and more than 250,000 tonnes of soil removed. The land rehabilitation work is being carried out in strict compliance with permit decisions issued by the environmental authorities.
The fresh soil imported to the site will be landscaped to transform the former landfill site of the mill into a high-quality recreation area.