Businessweek

UPM-Kymmene Oyj manufactures and sells printing and writing papers. It operates in Energy, Pulp, Forest and Timber, Paper, Label, Plywood, and Other Operations. The company offers magazine papers, newsprint and fine papers, and specialty papers to publishers, retailers, printers, distributors, and paper converters. It is also involved in the generation of electricity through hydro, nuclear, and condensing power generation assets with total generating capacity of approximately 1,714 MW in the Nordic and central European energy markets; and electricity distribution activities. In addition, the company produces renewable biofuels; provides pulp products consisting of northern softwood and hardwood pulp, and eucalyptus pulp; manages owned forests, as well as offers forest services for private forest owners; and manufactures sawn pine and spruce timber and further processed products for the construction and joinery industries. Further, it provides self-adhesive label materials used for product and information labeling in food and beverage, retail and logistics, and personal and home care industries; plywood and veneer products to building, construction, transport, furniture, parquet, and other industries under the WISA brand; and UPM ProFi, a wood-plastic composite product for various end uses. The company has operations in the European Union countries, North and South America, and Asia. UPM-Kymmene Oyj was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.