Schongau, Bavaria, Germany
Employees
540
Capacity
740,000 tonnes per year
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.
Schongau, Bavaria, Germany
Employees
540
Capacity
740,000 tonnes per year
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
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.
All certificates can be found from UPM’s Certificate finder
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.
UPM Schongau
Friedrich-Haindl-Straße 10
86956 Schongau
Germany
Tel: +49 8861 213-0
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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