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Two environmental awards to UPM Chapelle Darblay

Tuesday 13. October 2009 - The river transportation system implemented on the Seine in France by UPM Chapelle Darblay has won two environmental awards.

The river transportation system received a special prize of the Environmental
Awards of the cities of Ile-de-France (Paris area). These prizes are granted to
particularly innovating initiatives done in partnership with communities. It
also won a prize in the Initiatives of the Economy that aim at highlighting
initiatives implemented to stimulate economic development. The jury was composed
of 70 journalists from the economic press and it awarded UPM a trophy in the
category “Sustainable river transportation”.

The innovative system increases UPM’s river transportation capacity between
Paris and Rouen. A barge transports finished paper products to the printers of
the Paris area and it returns back to the UPM Chapelle Darblay mill with
recovered papers. The transportation system decreases the amount of trucks on
the A13 motorway in France by 4,500 each year.

“We are proud to gain recognition for our excellent environmental performance in
this project, achieving 40% less CO2 emissions”, declares André Poiret, Logistic
Project Manager of UPM. “This was only possible thanks to our long-term
partnership with the Syctom de l’Agglomération parisienne, the local recovered
paper collector of the Paris area, as well as the support of both Port de Paris
(Paris Harbour) and Voies Navigables de France (navigable rivers of France).”

The new system is central to UPM’s environmental approach. It encompasses
sustainable forest management, preservation of natural resources and
biodiversity, development of renewable biofuels and the efficiency of energy
consumption. The Group also works hard to streamline its logistic solutions to
minimise the impact of transportation

The UPM Chapelle Darblay mill in Rouen produces 100 % recycled newsprint from
recovered newspapers and magazines. In addition, a biomass-based boiler produces
bioenergy used by the mill.