Iggesund Invests in Future Free From Fossil Fuels

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 06/17/2010

A €238 million investment at Iggesund Mill, which will include the installation of a new recovery boiler, will considerably strengthen Iggesund's flagship product Invercote, the company reported yesterday. The investment will include, in addition to the recovery boiler, a new turbine and equipment for capturing and incinerating weak, sulfur-containing gases, which will further reduce the mill's airborne emissions. "This investment is important both strategically and structurally," said mill manager, Staffan Jonsson (above). "It will give us greater energy efficiency, enable us to be self-sufficient in electricity, and give us a production process that is completely free from any fossil fuel use." "For Iggesund Mill, the new investment is a key step towards realising the mill's long-term development plan," the company said in a statement. "Fundamental to this plan is to have a production process that uses renewable raw materials and a product - in Iggesund's case Invercote paperboard - that can be recycled both as a material and as energy. The plan also states that emissions to air and water should be global leaders in terms of purity, and that the mill should be self-sufficient in electricity and operate 100 per cent on biofuel." "We're very close to our goal now," Jonsson said. "With a new recovery boiler and the other new measures we're also improving our overall environmental performance and further reducing our impact on the local environment. With the new recovery boiler we are leaping forward in terms of technology, and the result will definitely be clear improvements to our work environment." Building the recovery boiler is estimated to take two years. The work will employ about 100 people for the first six months and then between 700 and 1,000 construction workers and specialists for another 18 months. Enditem