SCA has recently resumed production on the 210,000 tonne/yr lightweight coated (LWC) paper unit PM 1 at its Ortviken mill in Sundsvall on the east coast of Sweden.
"The market situation is weak, so we took the chance to stop [PM 1] and perform some maintenance measures that we would have had to do at some point anyway," mill manager Kristina Enander told RISI. She declined to specify when the machine was restarted or how long it had been down.
Next week, SCA will take downtime on the mill's second LWC machine, the 280,000 tonne/yr PM 4, a company spokesperson said. This also concerns necessary maintenance work, but the timing was chosen due to the weak market situation and the coming long holidays, during which the firm's customers will have lower activity than usual, he explained.
