Norske Skog Walsum

Norske Skog Walsum
Location of Norske Skog Walsum
Built1962 (1962)
LocationWalsum, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Coordinates51°31′21″N 6°42′54″E / 51.5226°N 6.7150°E / 51.5226; 6.7150
IndustryPulp and paper
ProductsMagazine paper
Employees460 (2013)
Owner(s)Norske Skog
DefunctJune 2015 (2015-06)

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. 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. Until production curtailment in 2013, the mill employed 460 people.