Metso will start personnel negotiations regarding permanent employee reductions and temporary lay-offs in the Finnish operations of Metso’s Automation business line. The negotiations affect the entire personnel of the Flow Control business unit, which manufactures industrial valves, and Automation business line’s shared administration and support functions. In the Process Automation Systems business unit the negotiations primarily target the personnel working in the paper and pulp industry function in Finland. The negotiations affect a total of about 1,400 blue-collar and white-collar employees and are estimated to result in the reduction of a total of some 120-160 permanent positions.