Stora
Enso is starting negotiations with employee representatives this week regarding
plans to take out 75 positions at its Kvarnsveden mill in central Sweden. Of
these, 25 would be blue-collar jobs.
The
plan will see the factory's headcount go down to some 500 employees. How this
might affect production will be discussed during the negotiations, mill manager
Mikko Jokio said.
This
is part of Stora Enso's plans to streamline operations and cut costs by some
Euro 200 million ($264 million), announced in June. As a result, the company
may slash up to 2,500 jobs in total. Negotiations have started at several of
its mills in Finland and Sweden, and also in Belgium and Germany.
Stora
Enso halted production on the 270,000 tonne/yr newsprint machine PM 11 at the
Kvarnsveden mill in May for market related-reasons. It was later decided the
machine would remain down for good. In connection tot his, the company made 27
people redundant, while an undisclosed number of workers left the plant through
early retirement and other arrangements, Jokio said.
