Today UPM Plywood operates worldwide though its roots are well established in Finland dating back to the 19th century. The founder of UPM's plywood business, Wilhelm Schauman was quite an entrepreneurial person who continuously started new businesses.
He saw great potential in plywood and the mill in Jyväskylä, Finland was started in 1912. The Schauman company was not the first producer of plywood, but it brought large scale and up-to-date manufacturing processes to Finland.