Tag: Pulp
UPM starts personnel negotiations on layoff plans
The negotiations concern more than 2,200 employees at all of the forest company's pulp mills, sawmills and communication paper mills in Finland.
UPM starts vacation negotiations for 2,200 employees in Finland
The negotiations concern the employees of all of the company’s domestic pulp, sawmill and graphic paper mills, as well as the Lappeenranta biorefinery.
The police arrested 29 climate activists in connection with the Lapland pulp mill demonstration
Activists from Greenpeace and Elokapina blocked access to Metsä Group’s factory on Wednesday to protest unsustainable forest management practices.
Suomen Stora Enso is considering extensive personnel cuts
The measures would lead to the dismissal of 600 jobs, of which 250 at the Sunila factory in Kotka. The company announced that it will also start negotiations in its group operations to lay off around 300 employees. Negotiations for its packaging materials division, meanwhile, are largely complete and are set to cut around 250…
The police released the Elokapina climate activists, the investigation of the demonstration continues
A group of 38 protesters was arrested on Monday as a result of a demonstration organized in front of the pulp mill of the forest company UPM near Kouvola.
Climate activists block access to UPM’s pulp mill and demand an end to greenwashing
The demonstration of Extinction Rebellion’s Finnish branch started on Monday morning at 9 a.m. in front of the forest company’s factory near the town of Kouvola.
Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta will receive the 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Award
The production of cotton, the cellulose fiber used mainly in textiles, is not expected to keep pace with demand. Therefore, cellulose man-made fibers are an excellent complement to cotton, as these fibers have similar properties. The main manufacturing processes for man-made cellulose textile fibers are the viscose process, in which cellulose is dissolved with alkali…
The union will continue UPM’s strike until mid-May
The paper workers’ union announced on Thursday that it would continue the ongoing strike at UPM’s paper mills until 14 May, as no agreement has been reached on wages and conditions since the last round of negotiations. A proposal for a solution for UPM’s four business areas – pulp, specialty papers, labels and biofuels –…
Stora Enso plans to sell four paper mills, one of which is in Finland
Forest company Stora Enso announced on Tuesday that it will begin a process that could lead to the sale of the company’s four paper mills. The mills include Stora Enso’s Anjala paper mill in Finland and the Hylte and Nymölla mills in Sweden, as well as the Maxau mill in southwest Germany – all of…
Settlement proposed in UPM’s protracted labor dispute
On Tuesday, Finland asked the parties to the labor dispute to respond to the settlement proposal by April 10 at 10 a.m. The proposal only applies to UPM’s pulp business employees. Union of Paper Workers stated that it intends to continue negotiations with other business units under the guidance of the national conciliator, considering the…
The Finnish paper giant made the highest annual profit ever in 2021
HELSINKI, JANUARY 28 (Xinhua) – Finnish pulp and paper giant Stora Enso reported on Friday that its sales in the fourth quarter (Q4) 2021 amounted to 10,164 million euros (11.3 million US dollars), against 8,553 million euros a year earlier. The company’s operating profit before interest and taxes (EBIT) for the full year more than…
UP’s paper mill company merges with the Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer
MIAMISBURG, Ohio (WLUC) – The parent company of two UP paper mills merges with a Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer. BillerudKorsnäs AB will acquire all outstanding shares in Verso Corporation for a purchase price of USD 27 per share or approximately USD 825 million. According to Verso, the transaction is expected to be completed during…
UPM Finland faced strikes in the middle of negotiations
Trade Union Pro on Friday said UPM has rejected all its invitations to continue negotiations, leaving employees without a common agreement on working conditions, salary base and salary increases at the turn of the year. UPM has also not shown a willingness to comply with the old terms and conditions after the termination of the…
Stora Enso will lay off after 550 negotiations in Kemi
Read more: Stora Enso closes pulp and paper mill in Kemi, Lapland (April 20, 2021) Four-fifths of those who lost their jobs worked in the paper division and one-fifth in the maintenance company Efora. Most redundancies will be made by the end of January 2022. More than a quarter, or 28 percent, of layoffs can…
Appeared after assault by grandfather
– He was abused. And I was abused. But I was not abused by him. I was abused by his abuser. – Nobody knew what to do. That’s why I made “The War Zone,” said Tim Roth, who turns 60 on Thursday, May 14th. In 1999, Tim Roth debuted as a director with the movie…
Railway operator VR reported a loss of EUR 15 million in the first quarter
VR’s loss in highway traffic was almost EUR 15 million in January-March 2021. A year ago, the company announced a profit of just under EUR 13 million. Sales fell more than 18 percent to just under 190 million. The company cited the Covid pandemic as the main reason for the decline. "The epidemic had a…
Stora Enso wants to close the paper mill in Kvarnsveden: “Sad”
The forest industry giant Stora Enso plans to close pulp and paper production in Kvarnsveden this year, according to a press release. The mill in Veitsiluoto in Finland will also be closed and a total of 1,110 employees will be affected, of which 440 in Sweden. “It’s sad, the boy works there,” says Ove Jaxvik,…
Stora Enso closes Kemi plant, losing 670 jobs
Finnish forest product manufacturer Stora Enso has announced its intention to permanently close the Veitsiluoto pulp and paper mill in Kemi, northern Finland, and the company’s Kvarsveden mill in Sweden. The company announced its intention to negotiate with employee representatives for 670 jobs at the Finnish plant and 440 employees in Sweden. According to the…
The value of Finnish exports fell by more than 10% in January, preliminary statistics show
The trade deficit of EUR 300 million represents an increase of about EUR 5 million from January 2019. Both exports and imports decreased, especially in non-EU countries, by 11.3% and 13.2%. Exports to other Member States fell by 10.0%, while imports from other Member States fell by 7.3%. According to preliminary statistics, the value of…
Metsä Group is building a EUR 1.6 billion pulp mill in Kemi
Metsä Group, a company in the forest products industry, announced on Thursday that the Metsä Fiber division has decided to build a new bioproduct plant in Kemi worth EUR 1.6 billion. The construction phase will take about two and a half years, and the plant is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2023.…
Recycling of textiles is making an impact – Sweden at the forefront
Recycling of textiles is making an impact and Sweden is at the forefront, according to the Swedish Environmental Institute IVL. What is needed now is for municipalities and clothing companies to start collecting textiles close to their homes. More in Klotet. Every year we throw away an average of seven and a half kilos of…
From Iceland – Gods Of Iceland: Týr, The Tough Guy
Great Power: Battle, courage, not even blinking even if you remove his limbs.Weaknesses: Sorry, did you say “weakness”?Modern counterparts: Arnold Schwarzenegger beats aliens in Predator. Tire was the God of war and justice. He made the worst monsters tremble in his boots and big white sharks got wet. (Or he would have done it, if…
Production of newsprint is stopped
The production of newsprint has taken a heavy toll on the corona pandemic, and an already downward trend has been accelerated. Which meant that two large producers, SCA and Stora Enso, have now chosen to stop the production of printing paper. – Demand for printing paper has fallen steadily since 2007, by somewhere between five…
UPM will win more than expected in the third quarter
The Finnish forest industry company UPM announced a larger decline in its expectations in the third quarter. According to the company, its profit fell to EUR 215 million in the third quarter from EUR 342 million a year earlier. Net sales decreased by 19 percent to EUR 2 billion due to lower paper deliveries and…
Children in the caries experiment: “Did not get to choose what they would sacrifice”
Children as young as six years old were included in the Swedish caries experiment. Ekot and P1 Documentary can tell you that. Researcher Elin Bomenell, who has a doctorate in the caries experiment, states that the subjects had to sacrifice their teeth so that others would feel better. Those who were selected as subjects in…