Schongau, Bavaria, Germany
Employees
540
Capacity
740,000 tonnes per year
UPM Schongau
UPM Schongau is located some 100 kilometers from Munich in the German town of Schongau. Tradition and progress have shaped the mill site since it was founded in 1887. UPM Schongau has some 540 employees and produces over 740,000 tonnes per annum of printing paper in reels on three paper machines. The paper mill is committed to sustainability and uses, in addition to wood, over 90 % recovered paper.
Product types
Newsprint
UPM EcoBasic, UPM News
Improved Newsprint (MFS)
UPM EcoPrime, UPM Brite, UPM Opalite
Uncoated mechanical paper (SC)
UPM Eco, UPM ReCat, UPM Max S
Machine finished speciality (MFS)
UPM Book, UPM Pure
I am proud to, and love to work on paper machine 6 at UPM Schongau. The over 50 year old paper machine makes a wide range of paper grades. My team and I are regularly faced with interesting and challenging tasks. In this way we continue to develop not only ourselves but also our machines.
Mill technology & Sustainability
46 %
Specific nitrogen oxides from the power plants reduced by 46 % in the period 2010-2019
48 %
Specific nitrogen load in treated effluent (nitrogen per tonne of paper) reduced by 48 % in the period 2010-2019
74 %
recycled fibres in the papers made at UPM Schongau in 2019
Certifications
- ISO 9001 Quality Management System
- ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
- EMAS II Eco Management and Audit Scheme
- ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System
- ISO 50001 Energy Management System
- PEFC-CH11/0831.00 (PEFC/02-31-80) Chain of Custody Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification
- FSC-SGSCH-COC-002249 (FSC® C014719) Chain of Custody – Forest Stewardship Council®
- European Eco-label and German “Blue Angel” eco-label
All certificates can be found from UPM’s Certificate finder
Specialty Minerals Inc. (SMI)
Specialty Minerals Inc. (SMI) also operates at Schongau. It is a daughter company of Minerals Technologies Inc, making more than 1.2 million tonnes per annum of PCC filler for the paper industry.
Contact us
UPM Schongau
Friedrich-Haindl-Straße 10
86956 Schongau
Germany
Tel: +49 8861 213-0
Dive deeper
Papermaking at UPM
Watch the video about papermaking at UPM Ettringen in Germany. The video is published by allgäu.tv and it is in German.
E-truck testrun at UPM Schongau
The logistics company Spedition Ansorge and UPM Schongau have used the ELIAS e-truck prototype in a pilot project. After the successful testruns, they are now working on a concept that enables more sustainable and environmentally friendly logistics in the long term.