Location
Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a community of about 8,000
Some 150 miles North of Minneapolis/Saint Paul

Personnel
About 500

Product
Coated magazine paper:
UPM Cote

Capacity, tonnes annually
350,000 metric tonnes

History
1902 Paper mill begins producing newsprint with one paper machine at 200 feet per minute.
1917 Charles K. Blandin purchases the paper mill.
1921 A second paper machine is installed.
1941 The Charles K. Blandin Foundation is incorporated to be endowed with Blandin Paper Co.
1955 Blandin invests in trailing blade coater and manufactures the lightest weight coated paper ever produced, a success that makes Blandin internationally renowned.
1989 woodroom and groundwood pulp mill are added
1997 UPM-Kymmene acquires Blandin Paper Company.
January 2003 Nos. 3 and 4 paper machines are shut down.

Other facts
2002 First North American forest products company to achieve combined ISO 14001, 9001 and OHSAS 18001 certification.
1999 First U.S. paper company to have the combined certifications of ISO 14001 and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standards.
2001 No. 6 coater set a 24-hour world speed record.