Metsä Tissue Commences Operational Review of its Mill Operations

Metsä Tissue, part of the Metsä Group, commenced an operational review of its mill operations on February 1. Jari Tiura, SVP, Operations, is responsible for the operational review.

As part of the operational review, Metsä Tissue will be developing a concept for the future tissue paper mill in cooperation with equipment and automation system suppliers. The concept’s development will include a review of all the operational processes of a tissue paper mill: raw materials, production, converting as well as dispatch and warehouse operations.

The review aims to find out whether a new concept could significantly improve product quality, the efficiency of production and the use of resources. In creating the concept, the possibility to build fully fossil free mill will be studied. Also automation potential in the entire process will be reviewed together with the current status of mill systems and a development roadmap will be defined.

Ari Vehviläinen, VP, Operations, has been appointed project manager of the Future Tissue Mill project.
As a part of its operational review, Metsä Tissue has launched a program aiming at saving EUR 25 million in annual fixed costs.

Related to this, Metsä Tissue has started co-determination negotiations to improve internal efficiency, focus and reduce complexity in its Tissue Business. Planned restructuring can lead to organizational changes, such as job changes and redundancies.

Co-determination negotiations in the Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance and HR organizations commenced in February in compliance with labor laws in each country. Estimated reduction is approximately 90 in total, where highest savings target is planned to be in consumer business in Central Europe and CEE. The program will be finalized during the second half of 2019
Greaseproof Papers and Operations are not included in the above mentioned co-determination negotiations.

Metsä Group is a forerunner in sustainable bioeconomy utilizing renewable wood from sustainably managed northern forests. Metsä Group focuses on wood supply and forest services, wood products, pulp, fresh fiber paperboards and tissue and greaseproof papers.

Metsä Tissue is a leading tissue paper products supplier to households and professionals in Europe and the world’s leading supplier of greaseproof papers. Its main brands are Lambi, Serla, Mola, Tento, Katrin and SAGA. With production units in five countries, it employs a total of about 2,800 people. Its sales in 2018 were EUR 1 billion.

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