Schongau, Bavaria, Germany
Employees
523
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 523 employees and produces over 740,000 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
Standard and improved newsprint and calendered uncoated paper:
UPM Brite, UPM News, UPM Eco, UPM EcoBasic, UPM EcoPrime, UPM Book, UPM MaxS, UPM Eco, UPM Max S
Machine finished speciality (MFS)
UPM Book
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
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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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