The closure will affect up to 140 employees, and the company will initiate a consultation procedure with employee representatives, Tissue News reports. “As our Polish and other eastern and central European customers can be served by our other mills in Poland, Slovakia, Germany and the Nordic countries, after weighing our options, this decision – though not easy – was the only sensible course of action,” Hannu Kottonen, CEO of Metsä Tissue, said. As part of Metsä Tissue’s development program announced in May 2010, the company will invest in upgrading its Krapkowice mill in southern Poland to increase production capacity. Metsä Tissue will now consider using the site solely for warehousing or in its rezoning for residential development, according to Tissue News. Lars Warvne, Senior Vice President, Technology and Operations, said: “We made this decision to close our operations in Konstancin-Jeziorna also due to the obsolete infrastructure, which would have required significant short and long-term investment and would have been unsustainable for the company.” Metsä Tissue has production sites in Finland, Germany, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Sweden, employing some 3,200 staff. The turnover for 2010 was 940 million Euros, and the company is part of Metsäliitto Group.