In the initial phase, the cooperation agreement will include six grades of market pulp and approximately one million t of pulp sales from eight mills on three continents.

“We are pleased to enter into this sales and marketing cooperation with Canfor Pulp, a renowned pulp producer in the industry. The cooperation will provide our customers with the most versatile range of Northern Softwood, Birch, Eucalyptus and mechanical pulp available in the global market combined with world-class technical service,” said Tomas Wiklund, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, UPM Pulp Business. “Canfor Pulp’s grades complement our current softwood and hardwood pulp range very well. The cooperation will also bring us access to new customers in new markets through Canfor’s established sales channels in North America and Japan.”

Today, UPM is selling over two million t of our annual pulp production volume of 3.3 million t to external customers mainly in the growing segments of tissue, packaging board and speciality papers in Europe and China.