Stora Enso to Centralize Use of Recovered Fiber-Based Packaging at Pori, Finland

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Stora Enso, Finland, reports that it is planning to centralize the use of recovered fiber-based packaging in Finland at the company's Corenso Pori coreboard mill. A recycling plant investment at the Pori coreboard mill will enable all of the used packaging collected from households in Finland to be utilized at Pori. This includes used beverage cartons collected in Finland.

The plans involve permanent closure of the recycling plant at Varkaus at the end of the third quarter of 2010, but the Ecogas gasification plant associated with the Varkaus recycling plant will continue to operate, Stora Enso noted. The Varkaus recycling plant employs 15 people.

As part of the restructuring, Stora Enso's wholly-owned subsidiary Corenso also plans to centralize core production in Finland at Loviisa and Imatra, and permanently close down the core plant at Pori in the third quarter of 2010. The company said that demand for cores has drastically decreased in Finland in recent years due to paper machine shutdowns and production curtailments. The Pori core plant employs 15 people.

"Recycling recovered fiber-based packaging at the same site as a board machine using the material is logistically efficient and reduces costs significantly. The plan to centralize core production at Loviisa and Imatra would also yield significant cost savings and improve Corenso's operating conditions in difficult and uncertain markets," Sampo Antti, head of the Corenso business unit, explained.