RESHORING CASE

Billerud Korsnäs

Company details
Code: 
Billerud
Company name: 
Billerud Korsnäs
Company country: 
Sweden
Number of employees: 
4400
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C17 - Manufacture of paper and paper products
Sub-sectors: 
C17.1 - Manufacture of pulp, paper and paperboard
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
08/06/2016
Starting implementation date: 
June, 2016
End of Implementation : 
March, 2018
Reshored to: 
Sweden
Location of affected unit(s): 
Skärblacka
Location code: 
SE123
Reshored business function: 
Production
Reshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Estimated job gains: 
40
Reasons for reshoring: 
Firm's global reorganization
Case narrative: 

Billerud Korsnäs is a Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer. 
The company has announced that it will move a machine-glazed paper machine from Finland, to Skärblacka in Sweden. Moreover, the company will rebuild an existing paper machine in Skärblacka to increase its paper coating capacity. The company said it would invest in Skärblacka to increase surface treatment capacity on the mill's PM 7. The relocation of the Tervasaari MG kraft paper machine and the PM 7 investment are part of the company's plans first announced in autumn 2015.

The investments should cost around EUR 138.48mn should start during the year 2016 to be operative in Q1 2018. The company expects to create 40 new jobs through the operation.

 

Sources: 

Nordisk Industri, 08/06/2016
Euwid pulp and paper, 13/06/2016

Offshoring details
Offshoring location: 
Finland
Offshored business function: 
Production