Metsä Group’s tissue paper business plans to strengthen its Kreuzau mill’s long-term competitiveness
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Metsä Group’s tissue paper business presented an investment and capacity adjustment plan for its mill in Kreuzau, Germany to ensure long-term competitiveness and future profitable growth.
Companies in the tissue industry operate in a challenging and highly competitive market environment, characterized by increasing cost pressure due to higher energy and raw material costs. This situation also impacts Metsä Group’s tissue paper mill in Kreuzau, Germany. The company has today presented a plan to lead its Kreuzau tissue paper mill back on a profitable growth path.
Several actions are planned to ensure the mill’s long-term competitiveness and to build on the site’s existing strengths: a mix of efficiency measures, investments into modernising the production equipment and capacity adjustments, including the closure of one paper machine at the end of its lifecycle. The target is to balance the paper making and converting capacities at the mill and to focus the mill on manufacturing only consumer tissue products. These efforts aim to further enhance Metsä’s leading role in manufacturing sustainable tissue products.
In order to implement these plans, Metsä Tissue announced to commence change negotiations with the works council at the Kreuzau mill. The anticipated measures are planned to affect a total of up to 120 jobs.
„Wir sind bestrebt, den langfristigen Erfolg unseres Werks in Kreuzau zu sichern. Die Einführung dieser Pläne zur Anpassung unserer Kapazitäten und die damit verbundenen möglichen personellen Auswirkungen sind bedauerlich, aber notwendig. Mit diesen Plänen wollen wir unsere Position bei der Herstellung nachhaltiger Tissue-Papierprodukte auf dem wettbewerbsintensiven deutschen Markt stärken. Wir werden gemeinsam mit unserer Belegschaft und dem Betriebsrat daran arbeiten, die bestmöglichen Lösungen für die Situation zu finden“, erklärte Tobias Lüning, SVP West und Country Manager der Metsä Tissue GmbH.
Kreuzau ist eine der größten Tissue-Papierfabriken in Europa und die größte innerhalb der Metsä-Gruppe. Die Fabrik bietet den mitteleuropäischen Kunden Tissuepapierprodukte auf Frischfaserbasis an.
