About UPM

UPM Shotton paper mill processes 640,000 tonnes of recovered paper every year. With the introduction of its new materials recovery facility, Shotton is able to process everyday materials such as plastics, cans and household waste that are found in the UK’s domestic recycling system. For each 200,000 tonnes of recyclable material that are sorted at the facility, about 120,000 tonnes are newspapers and magazines that are used at the mill as raw material.

In addition, UPM Shotton partnered with external waste management experts, and together came up with new valuable product, Fibrefuel. This is a unique pellet that constitutes mainly paper fibre retrieved from wet waste, which is then shipped back to Shotton in order to be burned for clean energy. As a result, the mill’s process waste will be reduced from 20,000 tonnes per year to less than 1,000 by the end of 2011.