Metsä Tissue to Reduce Workforce by 19 People

Metsä Tissue, Finland, Metsä Group's tissue and cooking paper business, reports that it has finished statutory negotiations in its Finnish units, which it announced and launched this past September. The negotiations were part of Metsä Tissue's on-going company-wide organizational restructuring to improve profitability. As a result of the statutory negotiations, the reduction of personnel will be 19 people. Metsä Tissue's operations in Espoo and Mänttä, Finland, employ approximately 480 people.

"By restructuring and reorganizing our operations, we aim to secure our future competitiveness on the growing tissue and cooking paper market," said Metsä Tissue's CEO Mika Joukio.

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