ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) paper

The Finnish group UPM-KYMMENE (turnover of EUR 2.49 billion in the first quarter 2001) acquired, for EUR 3.8 billion of which EUR 210 million in debts, the German paper company HAINDL (consolidated turnover of EUR 1.67 billion in 2000 with 2,370 employees), the world's second largest producer of newspaper paper of which it will sell certain assets. Thus it will immediately sell, for NOK 8.7 billion, two paper factories from the Norwegian forestry group NORSKE SKOGINDUSTRIER ASA with a...