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Article: A WINNING MINDSET
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- August 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Paperloop, Inc. Aug 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Poland's Arctic Paper Kostrzyn has achieved a dramatic turnaround since privatization
A LOT CAN CHANGE at a mill in 12 years. Workers at Arctic Paper Kostrzyn, Poland, know this better than most. In 1993, the state-owned mill was highly inefficient and close to bankruptcy. More than 2,000 people worked at Kostrzyn, yet the mill produced only 50,000 tonnes/yr of almost any and every kind of paper on its three machines, units fed by an environmentally unfriendly 50,000 tonne/yr pulp line.
It was at this time that the Polish government decided to privatize the mill, a tender won by Swedish papermaker Arctic Paper (then known as Trebruk). In the last 12 years, Arctic Paper has spent $141 ...