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UPM Paso de los Toros Pulp Mill

UPM Paso de los Toros Pulp Mill is an operating kraft pulp mill in Uruguay, with a capacity of 2 100 000 tonnes per year.

Company
UPM
Group
UPM
WoodComp ID
00561 (how IDs work)
Country
Uruguay
City
Not recorded
Status
Operating
Capacity
2 100 000 t/y pulp
verified 2026-09-19
Type
Kraft
Region
Durazno
Website
upmpulp.com

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Raw material

Eucalyptus

Products

Pulp grades
BEKP
Byproducts
Energy

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UPM Paso de los Toros Pulp Mill is the 1st largest pulp mill in Uruguay of the 3 with a pulp capacity figure in WoodComp's register.

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Nearest facilities
Arboreal Tacuarembo (133 km) ·Urufor Rivera (233 km) ·Papel Prensa Mill (302 km) ·Capitán Bermúdez Mill (390 km) ·CMPC Pulp Pacific Guaíba (581 km)

Timeline

  1. 2023startup

    Start april 2023; full nominell kapacitet H1 2024.

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  2. 2020other

    Construction work on the mill site began in December 2020.

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  3. 2019founded

    UPM took the investment decision in July 2019 to build a greenfield eucalyptus pulp mill of 2.1 million tonnes per year near Paso de los Toros, an investment of about 3.5 billion US dollars.

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  1. 2017other

    UPM and the Government of Uruguay signed an investment treaty covering the planned pulp mill.

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Sources

Data confidence: High (90 of 100) how this is computed

How to cite

WoodComp (). UPM Paso de los Toros Pulp Mill (WoodComp ID 00561). WoodComp facility database, version 2026-09. Accessed the date you retrieved it. https://woodcomp.world/id/561

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