During the autumn and winter, Bergs Timber will reduce the production at the Swedish sawmills by about 35,000 cubic meters, which corresponds to about 6% of its Swedish annual production and 4% of the annual production for the Group. Parallel to this, the Orrefors sawmill, which in recent years has produced only pine, will during the winter concentrate a large part of the production on spruce beetle damaged raw material.
Negotiations with the unions will start immediately how the reduction in production should be implemented. Bergs Timber’s Baltic sawmills are in a better position and will not reduce the production.
“We have decided to reduce the production to normalize our inventory of finished goods and to improve our market mix. Together with our trade union representatives, we will discuss how to reduce the production,” says Peter Nilsson.
Bergs Timber produces and sells sawn and further processed wood products. It operates its production facilities in Sweden, Estonia and Latvia.
