The investment includes upgrading the recovery boiler and its flue gas

cleaning system with the best available technology. In addition a new

evaporation unit will be built to improve energy efficiency at the

mill. This will lead to a substantial reduction in consumption of

fossil oil and external biofuels. The goal is to strengthen the mill

for the future by improving environmental performance and energy

efficiency as well as enabling future expansion.

Billerud has for some years also projected the outlook for the world's

largest pyrolysis facility at Skärblacka paper mill. The project is

based on producing green oil from wood raw material such as branches,

tops and stumps in a full-scale facility at the Skärblacka paper mill.

The project intends to establish the technical and market prerequisites

for lignocellulose-based pyrolysis products, biofuel, as a replacement

for fossil-based oil. The green oil can then be turned into renewable

energy in customers’ facilities which would be a totally new type of

commercial energy carrier.