UPM recycles all printing paper waste collected at the large Drupa exhibition in Germany, working in close co-operation with Remondis, a leading waste management company.
Waste paper is collected in containers at Drupa and transported to Remondis' baling facility. The bales will be transported to the UPM Hürth mill, located close to Düsseldorf, where they will be used as raw material in UPM's paper production.
"At Drupa 2012 we will continue our established partnership with Remondis and collect the paper generated during the exhibition,” says Päivi Rissanen, Environmental Director of UPM Paper Business Group.
Recycling is an essential part of UPM’s strategy. With four million tons of recovered paper per year, UPM is the world’s largest user of recovered paper in graphic papers. About one third of fiber raw material used in UPM's paper production is recovered paper.
UPM mills in Hürth and Schwedt (both in Germany), Chapelle (France), and Shotton (UK) are all producing paper from 100 percent recovered paper. Other UPM mills using recovered paper are Augsburg, Ettringen, Schongau and Plattling mills in Germany, Kaipola mill in Finland and Steyrermühl mill in Austria.
