Last year marked a turning point in the long history of the Schongau paper mill with the closure of paper machine 6. At the end of June, the traditional machine from 1968 was shut down and has been used as a spare parts warehouse ever since.
The company had the “ideal work structure” for the move, says plant manager Wolfgang Ohnesorg. UPM currently has 360 employees, including trainees in Schong Hauf, Lower Bavaria, with 400 employees in Plattling, Bavaria.. "As we had hoped, we did not need any redundancies for operational reasons," says Ohnesborg with relief, "That was our big goal." Some left voluntarily, and a number of former employees also became self-employed, says OhNESorg. The products that were previously manufactured on the PM 6 had to be relocated to the modern PM 9, which worked well "with a few small adaptations."