Iggesund Paperboard has begun using a new purification system that will further ensure the purity of the waste water from its Iggesunds Bruk mill. Chemical treatment now complements the mill’s mechanical and biological water purification systems. It has cost just over €25 million to make Iggesunds Bruk, which produces Invercote, ‘a peak performer in water purification’.
“This new purification stage means we will be able to satisfy the environmental requirements that may be placed on us within the foreseeable future,” explains mill manager Staffan Jonsson. “We’re reducing our emissions of nutritive salts like phosphorus and sulphur, which are particularly critical to the already eutrophic Baltic Sea. We’re also removing much of the brownish tinge that currently affects our waste water.”
Iggesunds Bruk already operates 95% on bioenergy and plans to stop using any fossil fuels within the near future.
“Our vision is a mill that operates completely on biofuels and emits no carbon dioxide from fossil sources,” Mr Jonsson asserts.
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