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UPM invests Euro 50 million to improve efficiency and competitiveness of Kaukas pulp mill, Finland

UPM invests Euro 50 million to improve efficiency and competitiveness of Kaukas pulp mill, Finland

Specifications:

Name:

UPM invests Euro 50 million to improve efficiency and competitiveness of Kaukas pulp mill, Finland

Location:

Finland

Company:

UPM

Estimated Cost:

Euro 50 Million

Source:

www.upm.com

Introduction:

UPM plans to invest EUR 50 million in its Kaukas pulp mill in Lappeenranta, Finland, to further strengthen the mill’s efficiency, competitiveness and optimisation.

Features:

This investment will go towards modernising both pulp drying machines and installing a new baling line. Assembly will take place during a planned shutdown in autumn 2016 and start-up is scheduled for the end of 2016. The investment will benefit the entire Kaukas biorefining mill integrate through increased resource efficiency and operational flexibility.

Over the past two years we have made focused investments improving the production efficiency of our Pietarsaari, Kymi and Fray Bentos pulp mills. When all the projects are completed, our pulp production capacity will have increased by 10% from 3.3 million tonnes since 2013. The Kaukas investment is yet another example of well-targeted good return investments,” says Anssi Klinga, Senior Vice President, UPM Pulp.

These investments in the Kymi and Kaukas mills will complete UPM’s strategic decoupling of its pulp and paper businesses. This will enable higher efficiency and separate optimisation of pulp and paper production, while simultaneously maintaining internal synergies at the mills.