On November 29, the Pulp & Paper International Awards is held in Brussels. Hallsta paper mill is one of the finalists in the category “Environmental Leadership Award”, a prize awarded to a mill which has full focus on the environmental work and has shown ground-breaking sustainability efforts.
We work hard with sustainability issues and we are today one of the most resource-efficient mills in our segment in Europe. Over the last three years we have invested over 20 MEUR in energy saving activities and projects. One hundred percent of the wood raw material is utilized, ninety-five percent of the fibres are used in the end product, the bark previously used as fuel at the mill is now sold for fossil-free energy production and the sludge from the effluent treatment plant is composted and sold as soil. Nothing is wasted, says mill manager Johan Abrahamsson.
The investments have made it possible to run the mill without any CO2 emissions from the production process. The energy used is partly recovered as heat in the drying process. Another big advantage is the fact that all of the wood used in the process comes from sustainably managed forests and all the products are certified with the EU Ecolabel.
Hallsta Paper mill is one of seven finalists, and will hopefully be the winner come November.
Receiving the award would be a recognition for all our hard-working employees, but it would also be a strong message to our customers that we are in fact the most sustainable actor on the market, Johan Abrahamsson concludes.
Holmen ranks as no 21 on the 2017 Global 100 index, and is the only forest industry sector company on the list. The Global 100 index includes the most sustainable companies in the world.
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