Schongau, Bavaria, Germany
Employees
400
Capacity
575,000 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 400 employees and produces over 575,000 tonnes per annum of printing paper in reels on two 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
Uncoated mechanical paper (SC)
UPM Eco, UPM ReCat, UPM Max S
Machine finished speciality (MFS)
UPM Book, UPM Pure, UPM Opalite
Sustainability
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
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Watch the video about papermaking at UPM Ettringen in Germany. The video is published by allgäu.tv and it is in German.
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