UPM-Biofore-Magazine-1-2014-EN

RESOURCE EFFICIENCY IS KEY

Improvements in production processes help UPM's Steyrermühl mill in Austria save EUR 1.1 million a year. The mill has 14 projects in the works aimed at improving material efficiency. UPM's goal is to achieve a 15% decrease in the quantity of waste water by 2020, and a 20% decrease in the consumption of chemical oxygen in pulp and paper production, compared to the level in 2008. This project is proceeding so well that the goal for 2020 was revised and increased in 2012.

In 2013, our environment-related investments were EUR million. 29

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