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Manu Kalliokoski works as the operations manager of the Simpele mill's power plant. The power plant produces electricity and process steam for the mill, which manufactures folding carton for food and pharmaceutical packaging. He talks about the history and operations of the mill, which was founded in 1896, in a conference room he

“I left Lapland starving and ended up in Varkaus after a few twists and turns,” grins Ilkka Satta. Previously, Satta worked in LVL (laminated veneer lumber) production for about twenty years at Finnforest,

In his office at Sappi Paper Mill in Kirkniemi, Lohja, Tero Nevalainen says that since he was a child he has been used to seeing the Kirkniemi mill from the car window as he drives past it. Nevalainen is from Lohjansaari, a few kilometers

This is roughly what Mikko Syrjäläinen told development engineer Juhana Hirn when he started work at the UPM Pellos mill in Mikkeli in August 2024. Mikko, who had been driving a taxi for 26 years, had heard from his customers