The name MoDo comes from the names of two communities on the the Mo River in northern Sweden.
| 1903 | Domsjö mill was founded, 150 employees, 6 000 tonnes. |
| 1914 | A second drying machine was built. |
| 1918 | The mill got electricity |
| 1919 | 17 330 tonnes. |
| 1920 | The pulp price was 627 SEK/tonnes. |
| 1923 | The first bleach plant was built. |
| 1931 | A third drying machine was built. |
| 1933 | The entire production is bleached. |
| 1933 | 50 634 tonnes of which 1 006 tonnes was dissolving. |
| 1934 | A barking drum was built. |
| 1940 | Alcohol plant, 10 000 tonnes of 96% ethanol. |
| 1950 | The first evaporation stage was built. |
| 1954 | 79 000 tonnes. |
| 1954 | A new wood-handling. |
| 1959 | Converted from calcium to sodium-base. |
| 1964 | Storage of chips. |
| 1965 | A new wood-handling. |
| 1967 | Shift system with year-round operation. |
| 1972 | Sedimentation basins for recovery of fibres was built. |
| 1975 | 5½ -shift system. |
| 1976 | A new bleach plant was built, ECHD. |
| 1979 | The production of dissolving pulp was shut down mainly due to environmental reasons (approx. 15 million dissolving bales). |
| 1980 | A new pulp deresination method. |
| 1982 | A new, big, dry, barking drum was built. |
| 1985 | Partly closed washing system. |
| 1985 | AGA plant, 10 000 tonnes of carbon-dioxide. |
| 1985 | Biological treatment plant, an anaerobic biological system. |
| 1988 | Domsjö mill was the first pulp mill in the world with completely chlorine-free pulp. |
| 1989 | Permanent 6-shift system, 3 weeks on-3 weeks off. |
| 1991 | Paper grades are bleached in a completely closed bleach loop. Brightness 90 % ISO. |
| 1992 | Domsjö mill received the ISO 9001 quality certification. |
| 1993 | Dissolving is produced again, two stage cooking, followed by bleaching with a closed-loop technique using no chlorine containing bleaching chemicals. |
| 1995 | Salmon trout and salmon are once again migrating past the mill on their way up the Mo River to spawn. |
| 1996 | A new biological stage was built.
An activated sludge stage and a final sedimentation stage. |
| 1997 | The Environment Prize of Örnsköldsvik's Municipality was this
year awarded to Domsjö pulp mill.The prize was presented by Anna Lind, Swedish Minister of Environment : .....for efforts far beyond authority demands to reduce emission into water, and active and successful co-operation in the restoration of the Mo River..... |
| 1997 | 193 567 tonnes of which 130 935 tonnes was dissolving. |
| 1998 | A Displacement Press was installed. |
| 1998 | MoDo has entered into discussions with Rottneros concerning sale of Domsjö pulp mill. |
| 1998 | MoDo´s Board decided at its meeting (August 11, 1998) that MoDo should continue production at Domsjö. |
| 2000 | MoDo has reached an agreement to sell its pulp business in Domsjö . The purchaser is Domsjö Fabriker AB, a company owned by six private individuals (Malcolm Norlin, Dick Carrick, Peter Ekman, Tore Erkén, Lars Nordin and Hans von Schreeb). |
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The Domsjö mill produces 220 000 tonnes per year of chlorine-free bleached pulp. Presently, approximately 350 employees are working at the mill. End |
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