A comprehensive Transfer Company has been established for the employees who will leave the company.
Scheufelen has focused on coated woodfree papers (CWF) with the two grades premium coated and standard coated. Mainly in standard coated there is a decrease of volume by the digital media and this has placed strong price pressure on this segment.
As a direct result, one of the two paper machines will be idled to decrease the production of standard coated paper. The capacity will be reduced from 300,000 annual tons to 140,000 tons.
In future Scheufelen will focus more on premium papers, like phoenixmotion and heaven 42. In addition Scheufelen has recently introduced a 1/side coated SBS/GZ board for Luxury Packaging. The new high quality board is branded under the name phoenolux.
Furthermore the mill is currently working to develop other new and innovative products, e.g. for digital print. The standard coated range will be sold mainly in defined core markets. With this realignment Scheufelen expects a good future.
Scheufelen is part of the Paper Excellence Group which is headquartered in the Netherlands. Last year Scheufelen had a turnover of Euro 195 millions with a production of 277,000 tons.
