Stora Enso’s subsidiary Stora Enso Packaging and Huhtamäki Van Leer have established a joint venture to sell and market packaging solutions to the rapidly growing mobile communications industry. The new company, MCP Solutions Oy, is domiciled in Helsinki.
The products marketed by MCP Solutions will be manufactured at the production plants of its owner companies in Europe, the USA and Asia. MCP Solutions is also collaborating with the Finnish companies Formeca Oy, which supplies packaging machinery, and JOT Automation, which specializes in production automation.
MCP Solutions aims to offer its customers a comprehensive, global service. Its main markets will be Scandinavia, Continental Europe, the USA and China.
Joel Portnoj, previously Huhtamäki Van Leer’s Group Vice President New Business Ventures, has been appointed General Manager of MCP Solutions and Juha Haavisto, previously Marketing Manager of Stora Enso Packaging, has been appointed Marketing Manager.
For further information please contact:
Markku Pentikäinen, Managing Director, Stora Enso Packaging, tel. +358 400 498531
Matti Tikkakoski, Executive Vice President, Huhtamäki Van Leer, tel. +358 40 5091 682
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Stora Enso Packaging belongs to the Stora Enso Packaging Boards division. It produces corrugated board packages in Finland, Sweden, the Baltic States, Poland and Russia. Sales in 1999 were EUR 235 million. Stora Enso Packaging employs some 1,600 people.
Formed in 1999 through merging the operations of Huhtamäki Oyj (Finland) and Royal Packaging Industries Van Leer N.V. (The Netherlands), Huhtamaki Van Leer is a world leader in several areas of consumer and industrial packaging. The company has some 200 units and 24,000 employees in 54 countries worldwid. Its pro forma sales in 1999 amounted to € 3 billion. The headquarter is located in Espoo, Finland. The parent company, Huhtamäki Van Leer Oyj, is listed on the Helsinki (HEX) and Amsterdam (AEX) Stock Exchanges.
