Mar 31, 2009. /Lesprom Network/. Stora Enso is to take its Enocell pulp mill in eastern Finland out of production for 9 months, as Papernet informed Lesprom Network. The temporary downtime, which starts at the end of March or beginning of April, is part of Stora Enso's measures to adjust its production to the weakened global demand. Approximately 160 of the mill's around 200 employees will be temporarily laid off. The Enocell mill is scheduled to start again in the beginning of 2010. Enocell pulp mill has a capacity of over 400 thousand tons of bleached softwood kraft pulp and over 200 thousand tons of bleached hardwood kraft pulp per year. Totally, Stora Enso plans to temporarily reduce its number of employees in Finland by some 5 thousand persons during 2009. Due to the strong Euro and the high cost for woof fiber in Finland, the company tries to transfer some of its Finnish production to Sweden.