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Tue, 05 Jul, 2016 12:01:36 AM FTimes – STT Report, Jul 5  UPM's Kymi pulp mill in Kuusankoski. File Photo – Lehtikuva. Forest Industry Group UPM announced on Monday that it will be investing 89 million euros in Kymi pulp mill.
The investment is aimed at further strengthening its position as a supplier of bleached chemical pulp for growing consumer and industrial end-use segments like tissue, specialty as well as packaging papers and board, said UPM in a release.
According to Heikki Vappula, the UPM Biorefining Executive Vice President, after the comple-tion of the project, UPM will increase its pulp production capacity by over 500,000 tonnes since 2013.
Kymi's annual pulp production capacity is expected to increase from the current 700,000 tonnes to 870,000 tonnes of bleached northern softwood and birch pulp by the end of 2017.
Moreover, the new investment will further improve Kymi's cost-competitiveness and environmental per-formance.
The investment at Kymi mill will begin immediately, comprising upgrades in wood handling, the birch fibre line, recovery plant and effluent treatment.
New machinery will be connected to the process during the next pulp mill shut-down planned for the autumn of 2017.
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