May 26, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. Metsäliitto Wood Products Industry will launch statutory labour negotiations at all of its operational sawmills in Finland. The negotiations address the plan to limit, if necessary, the production of single sawmills through temporary layoffs for some weeks by the end of December 2010. The notice concerning negotiations covers a total of about 380 employees at six sawmills, company said in a statement received by Lesprom Network. ”Possible production restrictions are due to productive and financial reasons, such as the poor availability of competitively priced wood raw material,” says Ole Salvén, Group Executive Vice President of Metsäliitto Wood Products Industry. Production restrictions have already been implemented at Metsäliitto Wood Product Industry’s sawmills during this year. Metsäliitto has sawmills in Kannus, Lappeenranta, Merikarvia, Pöytyä, Renko and Vilppula and in Reopalu in Estonia. Operations at the Karihaara sawmill in Kemi have previously been suspended until further notice. Their combined capacity is about 1.8 million cubic metres of spruce and pine sawn timber.