Stora Enso ends newsprint production at Maxau mill
Nov 24 2010 Stora Enso has stopped production on PM7 at the Maxau mill in Germany, thereby ending the mill’s newsprint production.
As Papernet reported in the beginning of September this year, Stora Enso had decided to end newsprint production at the Maxau plant near Karlsruhe in southwestern Germany at the end of November, in order to decrease the newsprint capacity in Europe.The newsprint machine at Maxau mill, PM7, with a capacity of close to 200,000 tons per year, was closed down Tuesday, November 23. Approximately 180 employees are made redundant.There are two other paper machines at the plant with a combined prpduction capacity of around 530,000 tons of magazine paper.