UPM is to invest GBP 17 million in a materials recovery facility at its UPM Shotton paper mill in North Wales. Construction of the facility will commence immediately and will be completed by January 2011.

Helsinki – According to UPM, the investment will further strengthen the mill's integrated operations. “The materials recovery facility has been designed to allow UPM Shotton to sort dry recyclables such as plastic bottles, cardboard, newspapers, magazines and metals,” the company said. “The investment is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government with a GBP 1.7m Single Investment Fund grant and will have up to150 people working on the construction phase of the facility.”

As is reported, the new facility will enable the Shotton mill, which currently recovers approximately 640,000 tonnes of recovered newspapers and magazines per annum, to source high quality paper from co-mingled sources. Once fully operational, the facility will sort up to 200,000 tonnes of recyclable material of which 120,000 tonnes will be newspapers and magazines - providing 20% of the recovered paper used as raw material in the mill's paper production. Surplus recyclable material will be recycled by other reprocessors as required.

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