Our bleached hardwood kraft pulp (BHKP) range offers the best of the North and the South. Birch from the Nordics and eucalyptus from Uruguay provide you with a variety of fibre characteristics that help optimize your furnish, enhance end-product quality and improve operational efficiency across a wide range of applications.
As the world’s leading multifibre pulp supplier, UPM Pulp combines world-class production, a broad portfolio of hardwood and softwood pulps, and deep technical expertise.
Made from plantation-grown eucalyptus, this versatile fibre delivers consistent quality and excellent runnability. The improved refinability properties of UPM Euca support lower energy consumption in the refining process and enhanced end product quality. UPM Euca produces clean, soft and smooth tissue products, good surface and optical properties for printing and writing end uses and good bulk when refined to the required tensile strength.
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A naturally strong solution made from northern birch. UPM Betula has long fibres and high bonding strength, reaching optimum performance with reduced refining energy. It’s fast to develop exceptional tensile strength and z-strength, high density and very low porosity. The versatile fibres provide a high-quality hardwood solution and a strong, cost-efficient alternative to softwood, helping optimize furnish and enhance product quality without compromising production performance.
Use UPM Betula especially for:
Simply put, hardwood pulp is pulp that is made from hardwood trees, such as birch, eucalyptus and maple. At UPM Pulp we make bleached hardwood kraft pulp from birch wood produced in our mills in Finland and eucalyptus pulp produced in our mills in Uruguay. The morphology and structure of hardwood pulp fibres make them ideal for products that require smoothness and good printing properties. Another benefit of hardwood pulp is that it’s well suited for products that require higher bulk.
Hardwood pulp is a versatile raw material that serves as the foundation for a wide range of products across various industries. Due to the short fibre lengths of hardwood trees like birch and eucalyptus, the resulting pulp provides a smooth finish, ideal for products such as tissue, high-quality printing and writing papers, specialty papers, and packaging and carton boards.
We produce hardwood pulp in Uruguay and Finland. In Uruguay we produce UPM Euca eucalyptus pulp at our Fray Bentos and Paso de los Toros pulp mills. In Finland we produce UPM Betula, our northern bleached hardwood kraftpulp, at the Kymi and Pietarsaari pulp mills. Together, our mills in Uruguay and Finland provide reliable quality and a high level of supply security to customers worldwide.
Although both hardwood pulp and softwood pulp can be used in various applications, they each give products their own qualities. One key difference between hardwood and softwood pulp is their fibre length. Hardwood fibres are shorter than the fibres in softwood pulp. Hardwood pulp is particularly suitable for products that require smoothness and higher bulk, while softwood pulp is well suited for products that require high strength and durability.
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