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Stora Enso Plans a Retreat to the Heart of Global CLT Production

Europe’s largest sawn wood producer, Stora Enso, is the latest to scale back cross-laminated timber production outside Central Europe, revealing plans yesterday to close the 100,000 cubic metre CLT line at its Gruvön sawmill in western Sweden. It comes as Lech Muszyński, a professor of wood science and engineering at Oregon State University, found CLT […]

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80 jobs have been laid off at Gruvön's sawmill in Grums. Intensive negotiations are now underway between the parties – while workers are worried about what lies ahead. – I live here in Grums and I like it, but will I be able to stay? Johannes Boström wonders.

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Stora Enso closes Swedish factory after only 7 years in operation. Stora Enso will cease cross-laminated timber production at the Gruvön factory in Sweden, which opened just seven years ago and cost 45 million euros. Wood industry, Sweden, Export, Construction, wood construction, TOP of industries, Redundancies, Wood and furniture industry, building materials.

Change negotiations on Gruvön's sawmill could lead to the layoffs of 80 employees.

Stora Enso is closing down an entire production facility in Grums. Up to 80 people may have to leave. It has not been a secret that things have gone badly, but: “We didn't think they would close down,” says Johannes Boström.

Stora Enso is laying off 80 employees at Gruvön's sawmill in Grums. Håkan Johansson, club chairman of the GS union, received the first reactions from the employees on Monday. “They are shocked and saddened,” he says.

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arvopaperi.fi broke the news on Tuesday, September 29, 2026.
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