Environment
UPM shifts from road to rail for timber deliveries to paper mill
Timber deliveries to paper giant UPM’s Caledonian paper mill will now be by rail instead of road as part of a £250,000 development programme.
A Freight Facilities Grant (FFG), part of a scheme to remove 180,000 annual lorry miles, has been jointly awarded to forestry and timber harvesting company UPM Tilhill and CSP Forestry.
Around 120,000 tonnes of timber processed by the mill will be transported by rail from Rannoch to Irvine over the next eight years. The programme will start in the summer of 2009.
Peter Whitfield, timber operations director, UPM Tilhill, said: “Enabling the transport of harvested timber by rail reduces the impact on local communities and makes good use of the existing infrastructure.
“The FFG enables both UPM Tilhill and our partners to carry out harvesting
operations in a timely and sensitive way.”
Located in Irvine, Ayrshire, the mill has 350 staff. Products include coated magazine papers UPM Cote and UPM Ultra. The plant has an annual capacity of 280,000 tonnes.
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