Myllykoski Corporation was a family owned international paper group with manufacturing in Germany

Germany

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, Finland

Finland

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 and North America

North America

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 and sales offices around the world. The Finnish roots of the parent company go back to 1892.

Product

The company makes supercalendered and coated (SC) paper and lightweight coated (LWC) paper, principally for use in magazines, catalogs, advertising inserts, and brochures. Myllykoski produces about 500,000 tons of paper annually, about 95% of which is exported to Europe

Europe

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, Africa

Africa

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, Asia

Asia

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, and US.

The company owns about 65% while other 35% was holded by M-real

M-real

M-real Corporation is a Finnish paper and pulp company. It was originally established by G.A. Serlachius, and named Metsä-Serla . The brand Serla is an M-real brand. M-real's slogan is "make it real"....

. Myllykoski's paper is sold in US through Madison International Sales Company, another Myllykoski Corporation subsidiary

Myllykoski is the third largest producer of SC

SC

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papers in the world and is among the top five in coated mechanical grades.

The European mills of Myllykoski are certified according to the guidelines of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. In addition to that the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 mills do participate to the EMAS II validation. The mills in North America

North America

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 operate according to the standards of Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an mills although they are not certified.

Myllykoski Paper

Myllykoski Paper producing mechanical uncoated (SC) and coated publication paper which yield about 570,000 tonnes annually. The company owns 50% of the Finnish pulp producer Sunila Oy together with Stora Enso

Stora Enso

Stora Enso Oyj is a Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer, formed by the merger of Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora and Finnish forestry products company Enso-Gutzeit Oy in 1998. It is headquartered in Helsinki, and it has approximately 29,000 employees...

.

Myllykoski Continental

Myllykoski Continental includes Lang Papier of Germany (newsprint and SC paper), MD Albbruck (coated offset paper in reels and sheets) and MD Plattling (coated rotogravure). The combined production capacity of Myllykoski Continental is 1.5 million tonnes annually.

Papierfabrik Utzenstorf of Switzerland (newsprint, UMI) left Myllykoski Corporation with management buyout by 24. June 2009.

• Utzenstorf Papier
• Lang Papier

Myllykoski North America

Myllykoski North America includes Madison Paper Industries, in Madison, Maine, producing mechanical uncoated offset and rotogravure which yield about 220,000 tonnes annually. Madison Paper Company in Alsip, Illinois

Alsip, Illinois

Alsip is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 19,725 at the 2000 census. It is a suburb of Chicago.Alsip was settled in the 1830s by German and Dutch farmers. The village is named after Frank Alsip, the owner of a brickyard that opened there in 1885...

, recycled fiber-based coated offset which produced 140,000 tonnes annually.

• Alsip mill  Divested 9/11/2009 to the Watermill Group from Lexington, Mass.
• Madison mill

Alliance partner

Rhein Papier is a legally independent company managed by Myllykoski Continental. The capacity of Rhein Papier is 280,000 TPa newsprint.

• Rhein Papier
• Plattling Papier