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UPM-Kymmene Oyj
UPM-Kymmene Oyj is a Finnish forest products company that turns wood into paper, pulp, label materials, plywood, and other wood-based products. It also sells biofuels and other wood-derived materials, so it sits between the forest and the industries that need raw materials made from it. Its business is built around harvesting and processing timber, then refining it into products that customers use in packaging, publishing, manufacturing, and energy. Its main customers are packaging makers, consumer goods companies, printers, publishers, and industrial buyers that need pulp, specialty papers, or engineered wood products. UPM makes money by selling these physical products to business customers, usually through long-term supply relationships and contracts tied to industrial demand. The company also earns from managing and selling wood fiber and related bio-based inputs. What makes UPM different is that it is not just a paper maker. It is a broad wood-processing company with deep control over forestry, fiber sourcing, and industrial production, which gives it a central role in the bioeconomy. That makes its business less about finished consumer brands and more about supplying the basic materials other companies use to make packaging, printed goods, and renewable industrial products.
UPM-Kymmene Oyj is a Finnish forest products company that turns wood into paper, pulp, label materials, plywood, and other wood-based products. It also sells biofuels and other wood-derived materials, so it sits between the forest and the industries that need raw materials made from it. Its business is built around harvesting and processing timber, then refining it into products that customers use in packaging, publishing, manufacturing, and energy.
Its main customers are packaging makers, consumer goods companies, printers, publishers, and industrial buyers that need pulp, specialty papers, or engineered wood products. UPM makes money by selling these physical products to business customers, usually through long-term supply relationships and contracts tied to industrial demand. The company also earns from managing and selling wood fiber and related bio-based inputs.
What makes UPM different is that it is not just a paper maker. It is a broad wood-processing company with deep control over forestry, fiber sourcing, and industrial production, which gives it a central role in the bioeconomy. That makes its business less about finished consumer brands and more about supplying the basic materials other companies use to make packaging, printed goods, and renewable industrial products.
Results: UPM said Q2 was a positive quarter, with improved results in all businesses and comparable EBIT from continuing operations up 71% year-on-year to EUR 212 million, or 9% of sales.
Transformation: Management highlighted two major strategic steps: the signed Sappi graphic paper joint venture agreement with financing secured, and continued progress on separating Plywood into the future WISA Group.
Guidance: For H2 2026, UPM guided comparable EBIT from continuing operations of EUR 375 million to EUR 575 million, while warning of higher maintenance costs and some additional Leuna ramp-up costs.
Energy: The company pointed to strong structural electricity demand in Finland, supported by electrification, data centers and new industries, and said it can offer 12 terawatt hours of clean baseload power through PPAs.
Biofuels & Leuna: Biofuels had a strong quarter on healthy demand, bio premiums and higher fossil reference prices, while Leuna biochemicals remained in ramp-up with more cost pressure expected in the second half.
Market mix: Communication Papers remained under pressure from structural demand decline, while Advanced Materials and Fibres South both posted solid performance, helped by pricing, volumes and efficiency gains.