Schongau, Bavaria, Germany
Employees
400
Capacity
535,000 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 535,000 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
Newspaper printing papers
UPM News, UPM EcoBasic
Improved newspring
UPM Brite, UPM Opalite, UPM EcoPrime
Uncoated magazine papers
UPM Eco, UPM Max S, UPM Max, UPM Smart S
Machine-finished specialty papers
UPM Book, UPM Pure, UPM ENI
Sustainability
Certifications
- EU Ecolabel and Blue Angel for UPM News, UPM Eco H/G and UPM EcoBasic
- EMAS – EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
- ISO 9001 Quality Management System
- ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
- ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System
- ISO 50001 Energy Management System
- PEFC (Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification) COC certificate (PEFC/02-31-80)
- FSC™ (Forest Stewardship Council™) COC certificate (FSC C014719)
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.
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