UPM threatens to move 300,000 tonnes of paper production from Finland if EU sylfur directive goes through

摘要

UPM will move 300,000 tonnes of paper production from Finland to central Europe if the European Union (EU) passes the proposed changes to the directive on marine fuel sulfur content in their current form, the firm's CEO Jussi Pesonen told the Finnish newspaper Maaseudun Tulevaisuus. "In Finland, the cost development is continuously going in the wrong direction: energy, raw material, logistics, labor, hours worked, flexibility," Pesonen told the paper.