UPM Shotton achieves five year milestone

Print Solutions

UPM Shotton, based on Deeside, North Wales, has achieved a new landmark in safety performance. The last recorded Lost Time Accident (LTA) suffered by an employee on site was on 5 July 2011, giving the mill five years of LTA free operation.

Shotton, a producer of 100% recycled newsprint is the first UPM manufacturing unit, globally, to reach this milestone. The parent company UPM-Kymmene launched its ‘Safety First’ campaign in 2011 with the aim of raising awareness of the responsibility for all. UPM Shotton employees make more than 4000 safety observations per year in their drive improve and weekly safety ‘talks’ are held for the whole workforce as well as visitors and contractors on-site.

General manager David Ingham commented, ‘Sustaining this high level of safety performance is a world class achievement by UPM Shotton’s employees. We have continuously focused our time and energy to keeping everyone safe.’

The production facility employs around 200 and operates a paper machine, materials recovery facility and a biomass combined heat power plant on its site in North Wales.