Segas sold.

SCA (Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget), Stockholm, Sweden, is acquiring the French development company Segas. The company is SCA's most important supplier of dispensers used in the European and North American away-from-home (AFH) markets--tissue for bulk consumers. The seller is Paredes, the French distribution company that is simultaneously acquiring SCA's distribution company Apura in the hygiene paper products segment in France. The acquired operation has annual sales of approximately EUR 10 million (US$ 10.8 million), and the divested operation has sales of about EUR 60 million (US$ 64.8 million).

In other SCA news: SCA Tissue North America LLC, a unit of SCA, Stockholm, Sweden, will close its plant in LaGrange, Georgia, USA, and eliminate 132 jobs according to the Georgia Department of Labor. The plant should close by the end of August. In February, the Department of Labor reported that SCA would close its Atlanta, Georgia, facility eliminating 58 jobs. The company will transfer its Georgia operations to a new US$ 240 million facility in Barton, Alabama, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.