Iggesund further reduce emissions
Swedish pulp and paperboard production facility, Iggesund Mill, reduced its fossil carbon dioxide emissions by 86 per cent from 2013 to 2014 from what was already a low level.
“It always takes time to fine tune a new piece of equipment and we’ve also made some smaller investments to optimise our return from the recovery boiler,” explains Olov Winblad von Walter, Manager of Iggesund Mill. “Now we’re getting close to achieving the potential we expected.”
Emissions of sulphur have also been cut, 82 per cent, nitrogen oxides by 19 per cent and particulates by 90 per cent – all compared with 2011, which was the last year the old recovery boiler was operating. A conscious decision on operating strategy and investments in process stages that previously used fossil fuel oil have also contributed to the radical reductions in air-borne emissions, according to the company.