Voith Paper President: Paper Mills Still in Trouble for Years

摘要

Difficult times for Western Europe's paper industry will still continue for a few years, says Dr. Hans-Peter Sollinger, President of Voith Paper, a division of the larger German Voith corporate group. In his opinion, capacity will still have to be trimmed before supply and demand find each other. The burden falls on the large paper companies, whose tailgating smaller producers will get off easier. Voith is owned by theVoith family, but family members no longer work for the company. Three members of the family sit on the company's Supervisory Board. The big names in the world's paper machine markers are Finnish-domiciled Metso and the German-domiciled Voith. Metso is larger but Voith is more profitable.