The plant in Sovetsk is the first greenfield mill in Russia since the 1970s. It has a 2.8 meters wide tissue machine, supplied by PMT Italia, running at up to 1,800 meters per minute. The production capacity is 30,000 tons of recovered fiber based tissue per year.The plant also houses two converting lines.Mats Berencreutz, President, SCA Tissue Europe, tells Nordic Paper Journal that Russia is a fast growing tissue market, with around ten percent annual growth. SCA, which already has a tissue mill in the country, located not far from S:t Petersburg, is the market leader with a market share for consumer tissue of some 30 percent.SCA started to plan for a new tissue mill already in 2002, to serve the Moscow area. A feasibility study was conducted in 2006, and the formal decision to build a new mill was taken by the Board of Directors in SCA in 2007.