“Bio Strategy of the Year” awarded to Iggesund Paperboard

Has invested more than €370 million to improve its energy strategy

Iggesund has been awarded the PPI award Bio Strategy of the Year for its efforts to reduce and eliminate the fossil emissions from its Iggesund and Workington mills. The award honors the company that has shown significant and successful progress in the area of using wood, biomass or waste for the creation of bioenergy, biofuels and other non-core products that signify an entrance into the burgeoning "green economy". The other finalists for the Bio Strategy of the Year Award were: Domsjö Fabriker, Domtar, Dravacel, Fox River Fiber (De Pere Mill), and Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner Piteå.

During the past four years Iggesund Paperboard has invested more than €370 million to improve its energy strategy at its paperboard mills in Iggesund, Sweden, and Workington, England.

Compared with the situation a decade ago, the company said that emissions were down by more than 260,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from fossil sources. The reduction was equivalent to having taken 85,000 cars, each driven 10,000 km a year, off the road.

PULPAPERnews - SUECIA - 17 octubre 2014