{"id":10181,"date":"2025-11-06T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=10181"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:28:15","slug":"valmet-plans-temporary-layoffs-in-finland-amid-capacity-adjustments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=10181","title":{"rendered":"Valmet plans temporary layoffs in Finland amid capacity adjustments"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Valmet, a supplier of technologies and automation services for the pulp and paper industry, is initiating\u00a0change negotiations regarding temporary layoffs across parts of its Finnish operations.<\/p>\n

The talks will commence on 10 November 2025, complying with the Finnish Co-operation Act.<\/p>\n

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More than 950 employees, primarily operating out of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Tikkurila in Vantaa, and Raisio, will be affected by the talks.<\/p>\n

Valmet intends the move to align capacity and enhance cost efficiency within the packaging and paper business area and the global supply unit.<\/p>\n

The timing and scope of the job cuts will be determined during the talks, with implementation planned for the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n

The packaging and paper business area, which includes packaging and paper machines unit, sits within Valmet\u2019s biomaterial solutions and services segment.<\/p>\n

It provides board and paper production lines, related technologies and services worldwide.<\/p>\n

The global supply unit oversees procurement, logistics and manufacturing optimisation across the same segment.<\/p>\n

The negotiations will cover employees in the packaging and paper (P&P) machines unit, and personnel at the P&P manufacturing unit\u2019s machine workshop and foundry in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, within global supply.<\/p>\n

All employee groups in these units in the country are included in the scope.<\/p>\n

Valmet employs 19,000 people around the globe, including 6,000 in Finland.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the company completed change negotiations<\/a> within the board and paper mills business unit in Finland, which were aimed at enhancing the profitability, as well as the competitiveness, of the paper unit\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n

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