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query ContentSlug_ContentQuery(
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) {
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}

fragment CompanyDetails_Content on Content {
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    name
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}

fragment ContentBasicInfo on Content {
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fragment ContentMetadata on Content {
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  alternatePageUrls: translations {
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  ... on Webcast {
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fragment ContentPageContentQuery_13QmVO on Query {
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        marketClose
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    tags {
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fragment ForumPosts on ForumPost {
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fragment KeyFigures_Content on Content {
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fragment PriceAndRecommendation_Content on Content {
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    name
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      priceData {
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}

fragment PublishingDetails on Content {
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  authors {
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  ... on Webcast {
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}

fragment Reactions on Content {
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}

fragment ReportLink_Content on Content {
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  ... on ThirdPartyCompanyReport {
    reportUrl
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  ... on StockExchangeRelease {
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}

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      squareLogoUrl
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    authors {
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      id
    }
    publishers {
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upm-kymmene-oyj-harald-dialer-appointed-executive-vice-president-technology-and-upm-biorefining

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UPM-Kymmene is active in the forest industry. The company currently works with the development of wood biomass and biofuel. The product portfolio is broad and includes, for example, biochemicals, printing materials, paper, and timber. The company has operations on a global level, with the largest presence around the European market. The head office is located in Helsinki.

publish.ne.cision.com              ViewReleaseInStandardHtml                              UPM is launching UPM Circular Renewable Black™ pigment, a groundbreaking innovation that redefines the role of black color in sustainable packaging. UPM Circular Renewable Black is the world’s first bio-based and carbon-negative\[1\] pigment that can be identified by near-infrared (NIR) radiation. It enables premium packaging that combines top-tier design, full recyclability, and strong, responsible performance. Black packaging has long been considered a challenge for recycling, as fossil-based carbon black prevents optical sorting in NIR systems, making packaging virtually invisible in recycling facilities. UPM Circular Renewable Black changes the situation. The pigment is made from renewable lignin and is certified according to independent certification systems (FSC\[2\], PEFC\[3\], ISCC Plus). The pigment offers an iconic deep black shade, full NIR detectability, and a carbon-negative footprint, enabling brands to adopt circular economy-supporting and climate-positive packaging solutions. UPM Circular Renewable Black is part of UPM’s portfolio of carbon-negative solutions, which will be produced at the company’s 1.3 billion euro biochemicals plant in Leuna, Germany. The plant is Europe’s largest industrial-scale investment in biochemical production. It converts sustainably sourced hardwood into next-generation biochemicals and accelerates the transition from fossil-based solutions to renewable materials across various industries.

As a forest owner, I wouldn’t be overly concerned about this UPM situation. Let’s hypothetically assume that the new JV would close the Kirkniemi paper mill, meaning a capacity reduction of 575,000 tons per year. This multiplied by 3, meaning a reduction in raw wood demand of 1,725,000 cubic meters of wood per year. However, that’s only about 5% of fiberwood consumption in Finland. Of course, it would affect the price of raw wood, but less than the imported wood brought from Russia back in the day.

Comparing the change over a 10-year period, production has decreased and revenue has increased: UPM revenue 2024: 10.3 billion (2014: 9.9) Products 2024: 10.1 Mt + 1.7 Mm3 (2014: 13 Mt + 2.1 Mm3) Sources: https://www.upm.com/siteassets/investors/reports-and-presentations/2024/upm-vuosikertomus-2024.pdf and https://www.upm.com/siteassets/investors/reports-and-presentations/2014/upm_vuosikertomus_2014.pdf If one disregards those tonnes and cubic meters and instead looks at their relative figures, revenue has increased by 33% in ten years. However, inflation has eroded 26% of that (EUR Inflation Calculator - Euro (2014-2025)). Still, 7% better. Are the chosen years the best possible for comparison, as revenue and production vary? It would be nice to see a similar comparison for other companies as well.

My memory of the early 2010s is different. I remember Pesonen saying directly that newsprint machines would not be converted or renewed, but rather run to their end, and the resulting cash flow would be used to develop new businesses. UPM thus made a different strategic choice than SE and MG. At that time, the largest ongoing projects were the refining of biofuels in Lappeenranta as a completely new business, and the expansion/diversification of pulp production in the Uruguay project. In addition, Pesonen strongly emphasized UPM’s transformation from a bulk paper producer to a high-tech company. Previously, UPM registered only a few patents a year; in the early 2010s, the number rose, I don’t remember exactly, perhaps 20-fold? Hindsight is, of course, always the best wisdom, and it is clear that innovations in the forest sector will largely continue to depend on political guidance – that is, in practice, whether producers of replaceable products (such as traditional cotton producers in the case of wood-based textile fibers) have to pay for the negative external effects they cause, or not. Politicians often decide for political reasons that they do not have to. In such cases, high-tech solutions from the forest industry cannot compete economically. This has also happened to a very large proportion of forest industry innovations since the early 2010s. I don’t know which year in the early 2010s was referred to here, but in my memory, Pesonen’s view on the future of printing papers was no more optimistic than others’. Surely many expected some kind of recovery, but the depth and permanence of the decline came as a surprise. On the other hand, at the societal level, we expected until about 2020 that the economy would soon enter strong growth after the 2008 crisis, as had always happened before. Now a huge number of people have appeared who, of course, immediately saw that economic growth like before was never going to happen. Hindsight is always easiest.

And now UPM’s current CEO “Metsä-Massimo” has to clean this up                    Maaseudun Tulevaisuus – 8 Dec 25              Kun UPM etsii kannattavuutta papereilleen, metsänomistajat ottavat iskuista...    UPM etsii tuottoja Suomen ulkopuolelta. Se vaikuttaa varmasti myös puunmyyjien asemaan, muistuttaa päätoimittaja Jouni Kemppainen.

In Nordland, the same applies, paper machine 2 remains with UPM, while PM1 and PM4 transfer to the JV.

In that UPM/Sappi arrangement, the same pattern emerges in Kymi. UPM produces pulp, and the new JV makes fine paper next door. Of course, the Kymi pulp mill can also dry its entire production and sell it to the market if local demand were to shrink.

UPM-Kymmene

(UPM, Helsinki, 24 September 2024 at 13:00 EEST) - Harald Dialer has been appointed Executive Vice President, Technology and UPM Biorefining. He will be a member of UPM's Group Executive Team...

<div class="abstract">(UPM, Helsinki, 24 September 2024 at 13:00 EEST) - Harald Dialer has been appointed Executive Vice President, Technology and UPM Biorefining. He will be a member of UPM's Group Executive Team and report to Massimo Reynaudo, President and CEO. He will assume his role as of 1 January 2025.</div>Harald Dialer, born 1970, joins UPM from HCS Group where he has held the position of Managing Director and Chief Commercial Officer since 2020. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry and extensive experience spanning over 25 years in specialty chemicals and renewables technologies at BASF, Süd-Chemie, Scientific Design Co. and Clariant, where he has held both business management and corporate roles. He is a German and Austrian citizen, and will be based in Augsburg, Germany.[image]"I warmly welcome Harald to UPM and the Group Executive Team. His background in chemistry and solid track record in business development and generating profitable growth in specialty chemicals and renewables fits our growth strategy well, as we enter the biochemicals market with the start-up of our Leuna biorefinery," Massimo Reynaudo says.Harald Dialer succeeds Winfried Schaur who has expressed his intent to leave the company for private reasons."On behalf of the entire company and the Group Executive Team I want to thank Winfried for his outstanding contribution to UPM. His career of 23 years at UPM perfectly reflects the transformation of the company. He was instrumental in maintaining our strong position and profitability in the graphic paper business, and for the past few years he has shaped our biorefining business and technology function towards the future," Reynaudo says.Winfried Schaur will continue in his current position until the end of 2024.UPM, Media Relations Mon-Fri 9:00-16:00 EEST tel. +358 40 588 3284 media@upm.comUPM We deliver renewable and responsible solutions and innovate for a future beyond fossils across six business areas : UPM Fibres, UPM Energy, UPM Raflatac, UPM Specialty Papers, UPM Communication Papers and UPM Plywood. As the industry leader in responsibility, we are committed to the UN Business Ambition for 1.5°C and the science-based targets to mitigate climate change. We employ 16,600 people worldwide and our annual sales are approximately EUR 10.5 billion. Our shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. UPM Biofore - Beyond fossils.www.upm.comFollow UPM onX&nbsp;(<a href="https://twitter.com/UPMGlobal">https://twitter.com/UPMGlobal</a>)|LinkedIn&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/upm-kymmene">https://www.linkedin.com/company/upm-kymmene</a>)|Facebook&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.facebook.com/UPMGlobal">https://www.facebook.com/UPMGlobal</a>)|YouTube&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/upmdotcom">https://www.youtube.com/user/upmdotcom</a>)|Instagram&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.instagram.com/upmworld/">https://www.instagram.com/upmworld/</a>)| #UPM #biofore #beyondfossils