Location
Irvine, Ayrshire a coastal town in southwestern Scotland, some 30 miles from Glasgow

Personnel
350

Products
Coated magazine papers:
UPM Cote
UPM Ultra

Capacity, tonnes annually
280,000

History
1987 ground broken
1989 paper production started
2002 Rebuild of Boiler Plant
2004 Investment - High Consistency Bleaching Plant
2005 Investment - GMES (reel tracking system),Primary Screens PGW, Profiling Rolls (Sym-S)
2006 Investment - Coater Rebuild
2006 Investment - Combined Heat and Power Plant (Biomass Boiler)
2009 Combined Heat & Power Plant (CHP) started up in May 2009

Other Facts
1992 Certificate of Registration for Quality Management to BS EN ISO 9001 (RM 20908)
1995 Start up of Primary Effluent Plant
1996 Environmental System ISO 14001
1998 IPC Authorisation
1999 Certificate of Registration for Environmental Management to BS EN IS 014000 (EMS45608)
1999 Bronze Shaw Award for Occupational Health Promotion
2000 Installation of Secondary Electrostatic Precipitation of Flue gases.
2000 Quality System ISO 9001
2003 FSC/PEFC Chain of Custody within BM TRADA certification. (TT-COC-1742) & (BMT-PEFC-0079)
2004 Site permitted by SEPA for Greenhouse gas emissions for EUETS (ETS/W/30012)
2004 First EMAS accredited Environmental Report published (UK00137)
2004 Silver Shaw Award for Occupational Health Promotion
2005 OHSAS 18001 accreditation
2009 European Union Eco-label ("EU Flower") 2002/741/EC, L 237/6