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Stora Enso to axe 62 jobs at Skoghall

March 14 2012  Stora Enso plans to eliminate 62 jobs at its Skoghall mill in central Sweden. Negotiations with employee representatives will start immediately.

In order to secure the long-term competitiveness of its pulp and paper mills in Sweden, Stora Enso in February announced a decision to re-organize the maintenance work at the mills, thereby eliminating approximately 130 jobs at five mills.How each mill will be affected is not yet known in detail, but yesterday, one of the mills concerned, Skoghall cartonboard mill near Karlstad, announced that 62 positions are to be eliminated, 51 blue-collar jobs and eleven white-collar positions.According to Carl-Johan Albinsson, Mill Manager at Stora Enso Skoghall, the mill's vision is to become the world leading cartonboard mill. ”To secure a long-term survival and development it is necessary to further promote efficiency, and we believe that it is possible through a change of flows and a higher level of ambition,” Albinsson told local media. Skoghall mill currently has around 820 employees.

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