Jujo Thermal pursues productivity improvement with major investment in Finland

Last year Jujo Thermal invested over four million EUR (4.3 million USD) at the mill in Kauttua, and this year plans to invest a further seven million EUR (7.6 million USD).

The Kauttua facility is home to Jujo Thermal’s production, and research and development functions, and the focus of investments is on productivity improvement, as well as ‘novel technologies’ to enable manufacturing of new types of products.

A special emphasis is being placed on quality enhancement to be able to meet the ever growing market demands, while the mill’s environmental impact will be reduced and the overall energy efficiency will be improved as a result of the investments.

Jujo Thermal added that the investments ‘guarantee its competitiveness in the future’.

Jens Remmer, vice president of sales at Jujo Thermal, said: ‘We are a part of our customers’ value chain and thus committed to continuously deliver competitive solutions for our customers’ businesses. As we work closely with our customers in terms of product development and quality improvement, they have been heard in our process of improving factory operations.’

Jujo Thermal president Yoshihide Kimura stated that the company’s owner, Nippon Paper Group, ‘strongly believes in the Kauttua mill’, and that the thermal paper produced there is ‘an important part of the group’s portfolio’.

‘The investments support our focus on supplying competitive, eco-friendly, and highly functional products and solutions. This is also in line with our strategy of bridging the technical and cultural cooperation between Finland and Japan.’