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News Release from: UPM-Kymmene Corporation
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 March 2007
UPM's Efforts Create 100 Jobs At Former
Mill
New enterprises have created over 100 jobs at UPM's Voikkaa premises and the Voikkaa exhibition room will be opened by the end of this year.
New enterprises have created over 100 jobs at UPM's Voikkaa premises and the Voikkaa exhibition room will be opened by the end of this year Currently, there are eight companies operating at the Voikkaa Business Yard on the premises of the UPM Voikkaa paper mill
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 22 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Those businesses have employed over 100 former employees of the UPM mill.
Storage services company Kouvola Cargo Handling, which has operated on the premises since last autumn, has already decided to rent more space at the Business Yard.
Due to the enlargement there will be new jobs for 15 people in addition to the 13 people already recruited.
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UPM's product unit director, Aki Kohonen, said: "So far, UPM has negotiated with 80 companies on setting up business at the Voikkaa Business Yard.
We have rented out approximately 20 per cent of the premises.
UPM Real Estate will continue negotiations to find new companies interested in operating in the region." To date, 441 former employees of the Voikkaa paper mill have found a new workplace, or taken up vocational training, whilst 79 employees have joined the retirement scheme.
There are 121 employees who have found new positions within UPM, whilst 174 people have been employed outside the company.
In addition, 86 people have started vocational training as part of the change security scheme and 60 employees will stay on at Voikkaa until the end of 2007.
Their duties will include property maintenance and dismantling paper machines.
The mill employed a total of 678 people.
UPM has paid entrepreneurial start-up support to 16 applicant companies employing approximately 25 people.
UPM said it will continue cooperating with employment authorities and a private recruitment agency to find jobs for 158 employees.
The company has also extended its re-employment obligation for local Voikkaa employees to 24 months.
During that time, the employees will be informed regularly of all new openings in the company.
UPM added that it has had good experiences from the previous relocation programme.
Ninety-one per cent of a total of 672 people found a satisfying position during the two-year restructuring programme that was launched at UPM's Wood Products Division in 2004.
UPM will restore an exhibition room at the Voikkaa fire station premises.
The room will be used to present the history, production and personnel that worked on the mill from 1897 to 2006.
The fire station, built in 1913, is a building of special historic interest in Kymenlaakso.
The intention is to depict working life and the development of professional skills with the help of objects, photos and other material collected over the decades.
The room will be open for former employees, as well as other visitors after the renovation by the end of this year.
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