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A Finnish example of
sustainability in the
plywood business
UPM Plywood
Sanna Kontinen

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UPM Plywood globally
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84%
Europe 14%
Asia
UPM Plywood sales by market
EUR 400 million
2%
Rest of the world
8 mills
3 countries
10 sales offices
+ global agent network
2100 employees
90% of sales from
150 customers

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Our focus is on construction and
industrial end-uses
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Vehicle flooring
Building and
construction
LNG shipbuilding
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Megatrends boosting plywood business
Environmental awareness
and climate change
Urbanization Globalization Digitalization
Increase in standard
of living

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Holistic view on responsibility
WISA® Plywood - Responsibility Made Easy
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Responsible
wood material Our very business depends on the continuous
growth of forests and the long-term availability
of wood.
The origin of wood used in our products is
known and comes from responsible managed
forests in Finland, Baltic countries and
Russia.
All the wood is sourced according to the
FSC®/PEFC™ standards. UPM is promoting
responsible forest management worldwide.
For every tree we use, we plant at least one
seedling for future generations.
(FSC-C009856)
Ultimate natural biomaterial
We use wood from responsibly managed forests
and make products that store carbon for decades.

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Responsibility made easy
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We have set 2030 targets for:
• Waste
• Water
• Air emissions
• Energy efficiency
Responsibility for environmental performance

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Responsibility for environmental performance:
Promoting material efficiency and circular economy – reduce, reuse and recycle
• Attention on utilizing waste as material instead as energy
– More emphasis on sorting different fractions separately, like plastics
– Innovating new products, like soil conditioner from crushed bark and base ash mix
• New reuse possibilities studied and exercised
– Ash in forest road improvements
– Crushed bark as a cover material in road construction sites
– Crushed bark as supporting material in composting
• When it’s possible in technical manner to utilize waste fractions as energy onsite instead of
transport long distances, these possibilities are utilized
• Regulation should emphasize in making new innovations, not restrict it too heavily!
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Responsibility for environmental performance:
Using water responsibly
• Two mills have their own biological waste water treatment plants
– Total process renovation done at one mill to increase treatment results
– Other one making long- term process planning on increasing treatment capacity
• Runoff water management updates done with Best Available Technology principles
• Majority of the mills send their waste waters to municipal waste water treatment plants
• Water scarcity not an issue for now, but needs to be kept in mind
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Responsibility for environmental performance:
Creating climate solutions and​ working towards carbon neutrality
• Investments for fossil-free energy production
– New boilers to decrease the use of fossil fuels
– Investigating possibilities to buy fossil-free electricity
• Heat energy production is heavily based on by-product utilization on site
• Constant energy efficiency actions- not only investments but daily actions from each employee
”Good for the business, good for the environment”
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Responsibility for environmental performance:
Our climate commitment​
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Responsibility made easy
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Responsibility for the society
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• Economical responsibility: taxes,
wages, wood sales revenues..
• Environmental responsibility
• Social responsibility: ”being a good
neighbour”
Picture from Pellos mills where road
safety day for local schoolchildren was
organized last week.

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Innovating a responsible future beyond fossils
• WISA BioBond
– Replacing fossil-based phenol in resin with bio-based lignin
– A good example on circular economy as lignin is a by-product in kraft pulping process
• Innovating resistant products to enable longer carbon binding
• WISA Woodsat- the first wooden satellite in the world to test the applicability of wooden materials in
space
• Producing soil conditioners from by-products or wastes to enable better growth conditions and
more efficient carbon binding of soil
• Investing in energy production to decrease the share of fossil fuels
• UPM sawmills already powered entirely by renewable energy
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Responsibility delivered to our customers:
EPD’s (Environmental product declarations)
• Documents reporting comparable and third-party verified data showing the environmental
performance of products
• EPD’s are based on life cycle assessment (LCA)
• The results of the LCA study and other information is compiled in EPD reporting format
• EPD’s are third party verified before being registered and published in a portal
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Responsibility delivered to our customers:
EPD’s (Environmental product declarations)
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• During its’ lifecycle, plywood binds more
carbon dioxide than releases it to
atmosphere
• By using wood products as construction
material, it is possible to bind CO2 for the
building lifespan
• Other responsibility marks are e.g M1
(emission classification) and CE mark
Declaration of Performance

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Responsible business partner:
Efficiency and Responsibility made easy
• Responsibility is an integral part of our
everyday operations
• We make efficiency easy for the
customers by offering high-quality
products and services, efficiently and on
time.
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