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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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)
Durazno: A new UPM contaminating spill was detected in Arroyo Sauce
In Durazno, a new UPM polluting spill was reported in the Sauce stream, with the company failing to provide information to the authorities to the Ministry of the Environment for eight days. Possible economic sanctions are being evaluated. The company has received 11 sanctions in the past.
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2024-07-21 (elacontecer.com.uy)
New UPM polluting spill in Arroyo Sauce: Complaints and sanctions
New UPM contaminating spill in the Sauce stream, affecting aquatic species and raising the pH. Repeated incidents are reported.
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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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2023-10-31 (ladiaria.com.uy)
“Enough of unpunished predatory extractivism”: more than 70 organizations demand sanctions from UPM for caustic soda spill
The groups demand that activity be stopped at the Finnish multinational's second pulp mill until guarantees of non-repetition of a similar accident are given.
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2023-10-03 (swissinfo.ch)
Uruguay sanctions Finnish paper company UPM for a spill that affected a watercourse
Montevideo, Oct 3 (EFE).- The Ministry of the Environment of Uruguay will sanction the Finnish paper company UPM with a fine after a discharge from one of its plants affected a watercourse, an event that, according to official sources, occurred in August and accidentally. This was confirmed this Tuesday
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(m24.com.uy)
Ministry must be more rigorous in prior controls and sanctions against UPM for environmental accidents, claimed lobbyist deputy - M24
The action of the Ministry of the Environment (MA) in the environmental accidents recorded in the second UPM pulp factory was criticized by lobbyist deputy Rafael Menéndez in INFO 24, where the parliamentarian demanded more rigor.
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