Metsä-Botnia made wrong calculation

September 1, 2010 by timbercommunity

Closing the plant in Kaskinen (Kaskö ) was a mistake, says researcher Jacob Donner-Amnell to Finnish newspaper Vasabladet. A series of mistakes and miscalculations led to the closing in Metsä-Botnia pulp mill in Kaskinen according to the interview with Jakob Donner-Amnell, social scientists with the forest industry as specialty at the University of Joensuu.

- The price of pulp has almost doubled in one year. While timber prices have gone down, "he said.
- It seems that Metsä-Botnia could not see forward at all. It was believed that the situation would continue as it was then.
Now it seems that pulp can be the future of the Finnish forest industry. And especially when the pulp of softwood. Kaskinen mill manufactured hardwood pulp. But it could, without excessive costs have been converted to softwood pulp, according to Donner-Amnell.

Full story in Swedish
http://www.vasabladet.fi/Story/?linkID=124840