The Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) news report that all furloughs at the Outokumpu steel factory in Tornio will end in the end of September. The furloughs of some 900 people working for maintenance and supportive operations will thus be over. Starting from October, there will be no furloughed employees at Tornio Works Finland.

Outokumpu’s orders have increased after the summer holiday season and the operations that have been ceased at the smelting plant will be started again in the beginning of September, a month earlier than originally planned. At the same time, work shifts in the steel production line will be increased.

In June it was informed that the furloughs of some 700 employees working in production lines will end in the beginning of September. At Kemi mines and in the ferrochrome factory, furloughs of some 250 employees will end.

Tornio Works has some 2,300 employees in Finland. Since April, some 1,800 of them have been furloughed.

Outokumpu is one of Fennovoima’s shareholders.