Through a long-term partnership with Viken Skog, BillerudKorsnäs will secure both tailormade BCTMP and wood supply supporting the strategy for sustainable and profitable growth in paperboard.
Sustainable operation from wood to the paperboard project for packaging
The Follum mill already has much of the infrastructure needed to establish such a production line and is in an area with competitive and sustainable wood supply and good transports to BillerudKorsnäs’ board mills. The ongoing feasibility study is expected to be completed during the first half of 2023.
– BillerudKorsnäs strategy has a clear goal – to deliver sustainable growth in packaging materials. To get the opportunity to develop the new mill in Follum as a state of the art sustainable operation is in line with our strategy. We aim for negative CO2 footprint in production with bio gas and carbon capture, says Christoph Michalski, President and CEO at BillerudKorsnäs.
The project is algned with the Norwegian government for a new green industry
The mill will be developed to a sustainable operation with high energy efficiency and low carbon-foot print from the operation and product in the value chain. The concept will include production of biogas, use of excess heat for district heating, and possibly also carbon capture. All of these activities will be developed in collaboration with their domain partners. This project is well aligned with the Norwegian government’s ambition to develop a new green industry in Norway based on forest and wood resources to the paperboard project. Furthermore, the initiative is one of the few large-scale industrial projects in Norway that is not located on the coast.
BillerudKorsnäs provides packaging materials and solutions that challenge conventional packaging for a sustainable future. They are a worldleading provider of primary fibre based packaging materials and have customers in over 100 countries.
