UPM
may scrap the remaining two machines at its shuttered Myllykoski mill in
southern Finland if no buyer is found soon, according to Timo Suutarla, general
manager of the factory. The firm does not intend to heat the facility this
winter, which would render the machines unusable, he explained.
UPM
will then take whatever spare parts it may need for other facilities and the
remainder of the PMs would go to metal recycling, Suutarla added.
UPM
closed the Myllykoski mill at the end of 2011. Earlier this year, the firm sold
the 220,000 tonne/yr supercalendered (SC) paper unit PM 7 to Shandong Tralin
Paper Company in China. The firm intends to convert the machine to make food
wrapper from straw pulp.
The
Myllykoski mill still houses two PMs: the 230,000 tonne/yr coated mechanical
paper unit PM 4 and the 150,000 tonne/yr SC machine PM 6.
The
mill itself is also still up for sale.
