UPM-Kymmene Oyj
Location
Uusimaa
Founded
1996-03-15
Website
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2568 news mentions monitored
Industry Context
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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2025-05-20 (apfdigital.com.ar)
They ask that the government report what it did before the chemical spill on May 16 on the Uruguay River |
The request entered the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday. It urges the Executive Power to report within a peremptory period of 40 administrative business days, on the Environmental Incident of May 16 at the UPM plant (former button), in Fray Bentos, Uruguay. Details were requested on the steps that were followed and argued that "the health of our population and the integrity of our ecosystems cannot be subject to uncertainty or the lack of transparent and accessible information."
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2025-05-19 (ipsnoticias.net)
Uruguay bets on forest industry despite pollution and social conflicts: IPS news agency
Montevideo - Traveling inside Uruguay is to meet a repetitive landscape of soybeans and eucalyptus. Where the forests of one company begin those of another. The parallel lines of eucalyptus form dark corridors, where trees grow for approximately ten years before being talled, peeled and loaded into huge trucks [...]
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2025-05-16 (elpais.com.uy)
A decrease in UPM plant tension caused escape and chemical splashes that reached workers - El País Uruguay
It happened at the Paso de los Toros plant. "The event was quickly controlled and the liquid contained in the process area, without generating impacts on the environment," says the company.
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2025-03-26 (xn--lamaana-7za.uy)
Sulfuric acid spill in UPM: "It is impossible that there has been no environmental affectation" | The morning
A new spill of chemicals in UPM in Fray Bentos motivated the movement for a sustainable Uruguay (Movus) to warn for the lack of transparency by the company, which has chosen not to provide information about it. The organization's spokesman, Raúl Viñas, spoke with the morning and said it is
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2025-03-11 (subrayado.com.uy)
Minister of Environment arrived in Fray Bentos due to sulfuric acid spill in UPM access port
The sulfuric acid spill occurred on Monday afternoon and the authorities were notified in recent hours. The Minister of Environment Edgardo Ortuño and his team traveled to Fray Bentos.
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2025-03-11 (elobservador.com.uy)
Ortuño said that sulfuric acid spill in the UPM plant was controlled and detailed the magnitude
The Environment Minister considered that he "worries" the punctual situation, but transmitted tranquility
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2025-03-11 (elobservador.com.uy)
Sulfuric acid spill in the port of Fray Bentos: Environmental authorities travel to Río Negro
The authorities of the Ministry of Environment traveled to relieve what happened and evaluate the possible consequences of the incident
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2025-01-08 (yle.fi)
The people of Kouvola ponder the consequences of the oil spill at the UPM factory - the matter is a mystery, even though it has been almost a week since the accident | Kymenlaakso | Over
At the UPM Kalso factory in Vuohijärvi, the oil spill was contained, but the amount of oil spilled into the waterway is not yet known.
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2024-12-18 (jamsanseutu.fi)
Ely-keskus: EIA procedure is not necessary in Corsair Finland's project based on chemical recycling of plastic waste -
The planned project is located in Kaipola in the former premises of UPM's paper mill.
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2024-12-02 (lorientlejour.com)
Global warming: the Mediterranean on the front line
Mediterranean countries, and particularly those in the East, are expected to suffer more intensely from the consequences of climate change than other parts of the world. Overpopulation in the South,...
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2024-11-18 (lexpress.fr)
The Mediterranean victim of global warming: “The region was lucky, but it’s over”
Published in the middle of COP29, the latest report from the MedECC network of experts provides a worrying inventory of climate risks in the Mediterranean. The dip...
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2024-11-15 (btpnews.ma)
Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Emergency and Expert Responses to COP29
The Mediterranean, a region particularly vulnerable to climate change, is experiencing global warming twice as fast as the average
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