Fire at Sapa Profilers plant in Finspång

Yesterday, Wednesday 29 June, a fire broke out in Sapa Profiler´s extrusion plant in Finspång, Sweden. The rescue services and fire brigade were able to limit the fire to the anodising department, where all the production equipment was destroyed. The presses were not affected.

 The plant was evacuated and no one was injured. Production throughout the plant is stopped until further notice. Clean-up work and the fire investigation has started.

- Fortunately no one was injured in the fire, says production director Ulrika Molander. We will do our utmost to ensure that our customers will not be adversely affected by the fire and we hope that the production interruption will be as short as possible.

For more information
Ulrika Molander, production director, mobile +46 (0)70 288 33 94
e-mail: ulrika.molander@sapagroup.com

Eva Ekselius, communications, mobile +46 (0)70 664 08 54
e-mail: eva.ekselius@sapagroup.com

Sapa Profiler AB has 900 employees, of whom about 170 are employed in Finspång. The Nordic operations has a turnover of approximately SEK 2.8 billion. Sapa is the market leader in Sweden. Production and sales are located in Vetlanda, Finspång, Umeå, Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Sapa is an international industrial group that develops, manufactures and markets value-added aluminum profiles, profile-based building systems and heat exchanger solutions in aluminum. Sapa has an annual turnover of approximately SEK 33 billion and approximately 14,800 employees all over Europe and in North America and Asia. Sapa is the leading company in its field and has customers in the building-, transport-, engineering and telecom industry. Sapa is part of the Norwegian group Orkla.