UPM-Kymmene has launched a SC paper custom-developed for coldset web offset printing. UPM Impresse plus C is claimed to offer a smooth, glossier finish and magazine-quality which is ideally suited for CSWO printing. The company says ...
Tags: CSWO printing, Plywood
Finland-based global supplier of pressure sensitive label materials UPM Raflatac has launched a selection of label stock products for wet wipes applications in Europe. The company has released adhesives combined with Clear and White PP ...
This is according to global credit research by Moody’s Investors Service, based on first half trading this year Moody’s notes that European paper demand is declining by 5% a year, and consolidation would aid the longer-term ...
Tags: Moody, Investments, Printing
Minerals Technologies has signed an agreement with UPM-Kymmene Corporation to build a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant in Changshu, China. To be located in Jiangsu province on site at UPM's paper mill, the new ...
Tags: Minerals Technologies, Packaging
As a result of the restructuring announced on 6 August, the Finnish UPM-Kymmene aims to increase productivity and thereby achieve growth in concern profits of €400m. In the new structure, which is to become effective from 1 November, ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
UPM-Kymmene has received a purchase offer for the French planing mill in Aigrefeuille d'Anuis. The offer, however, is still subject to certain pre-conditions, the details of which have not been disclosed by UPM-Kymmene as yet. The offer is ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
UPM-Kymmene has sold 5,900 hectares of forest in Finland to the equity-capital fund ZE Mets?. The fund was set up by the asset management company Latifundium Management. Latifundium specialises in the acquisition and management of forest ...
Tags: Forest, Construction
UPM-Kymmene has revoked the possible cuts in output that it had announced for 2013 at the end of 2012 for the Finnish Joensuu, Jyv skyl , and Savonlinna birch-plywood works. According to information from Kim Poulsen, senior vice president ...
Tags: UPM-Kymmene, birch-plywood, company news
The Finnish manufacturer of kitchen furniture, Puustelli Group Oy, has developed a frame structure together with wood and paper group UPM-Kymmene, which is to replace the corpuses previously made of particle boards in kitchen construction. ...
Tags: Puustelli, kitchen furniture, company news
UPM-Kymmene had to put up with an operating loss of €1.350bn in 2012 in spite of a rise in turnover by around 4% to €10,438. In 2011 the group had still booked an operating profit of €459m. UPM-Kymmene blames the losses ...
Tags: UPM-Kymmene, turnover, operating profit
UPM-Kymmene has started exclusive negotiations with the joint venture formed by a company from the VPK Packaging Group and Klingele Papierwerke on the sale of assets of the French paper mill Stracel. The takeover offer is subject to the ...
Tags: UPM-Kymmene, VPK Packaging Group, Klingele Papierwerke, Stracel
Finnish timber-giant UPM-Kymmene achieved an improved operating profit of m in its Forest and Timber business division in spite of lower sales and shipments in the third quarter. Without consideration of extraordinarycosts for the ongoing ...
Tags: market view, timber
With UPM ForMi, the Finnish company UPM-Kymmene, has launched a new composite material on the market consisting of 50% cellulose fibres and 50% plastic polymers. UPM ForMi will be marketed in German-speaking regions of Europe and in the ...
Tags: market view, composite material
At the beginning of September, the Finnish company Polkky took over business at the Kajaani sawmill from UPM-Kymmene, and thereby increased its total production capacity to roughly 650, 000 m³/year. The two companies had already agreed ...
Tags: market view, sawmill
UPM-Kymmene intends to dispose of its Kajaani sawmill and its Heinola and Aureskoski processing plants by the end of 2012. The restructuring plans for the business units “Timber” and “Living” announced on 11 April ...
Tags: market view, sawmill