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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Wood And Paper Materials Manufacture Of Wood And Of Products Of Wood And Cork, Except Furniture; Manufacture Of Articles Of Straw And Plaiting Materials 16.1 - Sawmilling And Planing Of Wood
New offshoring locations
Czechia, Poland
61 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
7 March 2024
Employment effect (start)
7 March 2024
Foreseen end date
Description
Stora Enso, a Finnish manufacturer of wood- and biomass-based solutions has announced that it would lay off 61 employees in Estonia as a result of offshoring.
The production is being offshored to Poland and Czechia. The head of the Tallinn office Kati Kilk explained this decision with the company’s need to increase productivity within the organisation so the production will be brought closer to the centres.
According to the most recent data from Teatmik.ee, Stora Enso Estonia’s number of employees has decreased by 155 since the beginning of last year, the extra 61 will be added to this number. At the end of 2023, there were 569 employees in Stora Enso Estonia.
In June 2023, there was another closure in a sawmill in Lääne-Virumaa that led to a reduction of a hundred jobs [Stora Enso Eesti 2023 - Estonia] (https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/109206). Stora Enso develops and manufactures wood- and biomass-based solutions for a wide range of industries and applications worldwide while specialising in sustainable and green production.
Eurofound (2024), Stora Enso Eesti, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Estonia, factsheet number 200931, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/200931.
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