UPM-Kymmene Oyj
Location
Uusimaa
Founded
1996-03-15
Website
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This company is tracked across risk categories, including those related to its sector (e.g., Logging, Sawmills and Planing Mills, General, Structural Wood Members, Not Elsewhere Classified, Pulp Mills, Paper Mills, Electric Services), including supply chain integrity, ESG practices, labor disputes, and regulatory compliance.
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2024-09-02 (teledoce.com)
Gerardo Amarilla on sanctions against UPM 2: "The fines are established by law, not according to the companies' billing"
UPM's second pulp mill has accumulated nine sanctions from the Ministry of the Environment in one year and four months of operation. The last one, a spill of 4,000 liters of caustic soda in the port of Montevideo, had not been reported by the company until a week after
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2024-08-06 (carve850.com.uy)
New UPM spill: Environment will apply two fines for US$180 thousand
New UPM spill: Environment will apply two fines for US$180 thousand
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2024-08-06 (elacontecer.com.uy)
Again: UPM fined USD 190,000 for discharges in Arroyo Sauce
The Ministry of Environment will sanction UPM with USD 190,000 for a discharge into the Sauce stream. The company has accumulated 9 fines, totaling USD 500,000.
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2024-08-06 (enperspectiva.uy)
News for Tuesday, August 6, 2024
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2024-01-24 (subrayado.com.uy)
UPM paid the fine of $182,000 for the caustic soda spill at the Pueblo Centenario plant
The Minister of the Environment, Robert Bouvier, indicated that with the payment of the penalty the file is closed. The Ministry is evaluating installing an office near the Durazno plant.
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2024-01-19 (packaging-gateway.com)
UPM faces sanction in Uruguay over chemical leakage
Uruguay M0E has levied a penalty on UPM, citing non-compliance with the environmental management plan at its Paso de los Toros pulp mill.
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2024-01-18 (carve850.com.uy)
Gerardo Amarilla on the 15 fines and warnings that UPM accumulates for work in Durazno: “the number of sanctions could be within normality, it is not at all exaggerated” - Carve850 | Listen to the whole country
In dialogue with the Informativo Carve de Mediodía, the undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environment, Gerardo Amarilla, spoke about the fines that have been applied to UPM and the damage that occurred as a result of the spills. He also referred to other issues involving the Ministry.
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2023-10-04 (economis.com.ar)
The Uruguayan government will fine the Finnish paper company UPM for a toxic spill - Economis
Uruguay will sanction the Finnish paper company UPM for the spill of an effluent containing caustic soda into a watercourse, which occurred accidentally at the company's pulp plant in the center of the country, government authorities reported today.
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2023-10-03 (teledoce.com)
Contamination with caustic soda in the canyon attached to UPM: Vice Minister Amarilla explained what it affected and what the expected fine is
"Tasks for recovering the contaminated, degraded environment" will be established, which will "surely" be in charge of the company.
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2023-03-05 (valkeakoskensanomat.fi)
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Tapojärvi Oy, a specialist in mining and mill services, is taking forward a project for UPM in Valkeakoski, the purpose of which is to refine pulp manufacturing side streams into construction products. If successful, the workforce requirement for the process in Valkeakoski would be 15–20 people, as well as the indirect workforce effects,
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