UPM is tuning up wood procurement from Germany for its biorefinery

Starting next year, half a million cubic meters of German beech will be processed into, for example, raw material for plastic drinking bottles and Lego blocks. The construction of UPM's biorefinery under construction in Leuna, Germany is in full swing. About a thousand builders from different parts of Europe will stay busy until the end of the year, when the facility is scheduled to be completed. Testing of the facility's wood processing is already starting, and hundreds of cubic beech logs have been driven to the wood yard for that purpose. Although the process is different ...