Norske Skog Walsum | |
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Built | 1962 |
Location | Walsum, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
Coordinates | 51°31′21″N 6°42′54″E / 51.5226°N 6.7150°E |
Industry | Pulp and paper |
Products | Magazine paper |
Employees | 460 (2013) |
Owner(s) | Norske Skog |
Defunct | June 2015 |
Norske Skog Walsum is a pulp mill and paper mill situated in the Duisburg neighborhood of Walsum, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The mill starts operations in 1962, established by Haindl and owned by Norske Skog from 2001. Since the 1990s the mill had two paper machines producing lightweight coated paper, a type of magazine paper. Both paper machines have a trimmed width of 725 centimeters (285 in). PM4 has an annual production of 225,000 tonnes, PM10 has 215,000 tonnes.[1] The mill used as its source one-third thermomechanical pulp, one-third kraft pulp and one-third coating. The mill is situated on the Rhine.[2] Until production curtailment in 2013, the mill employed 460 people.[3]