Iggesundrsquos Fossilfree Mill The Vision Is Within Reach Quotwe39re Getting Close To The Vision Of A Fossilfree Mill That Wersquove Lived With And That Has Driven Our Investments For A Long Timequot Says Mill Director Olov Winblad Von Walter Quotour New Recovery Boiler Which Came On Line In Spring 2012 Is Getting Better And Better As We Fine Tune It And Our Increasing Pulp Production Is Also Boosting Our Energy Productionquotfor A While In Midapril Iggesund Paperboardrsquos Swedish Paperboard Mill Iggesund Mill Was Able To Operate Solely On Bioenergy And Also Supply Almost All Its Own Electricity Needs Another Important Aspect In The Vision For Iggesund Mill Is That Emissions To Air And Water Should Be So Low That Iggesund Is Among The Global Leaders Among Comparable Manufacturers Yet Another Goal Is That A Minimum Of Byproducts Will Go To Landfilliggesund Mill Is One Of The Worldrsquos Integrated Paperboard Mills With The Highest Level Of Investment When It Started Up The New Recovery Boiler Was The Millrsquos Biggest Investment To Date At A Cost Of About Eur 250 Million The Boiler Enabled The Mill To Gradually Increase Its Annual Pulp Production From What Was Then 350000 Tonnes To 420000ldquoour Sulphate Process For Pulp Production Means That We Separate Out The Cellulose Fibres That Comprise Half The Mass Of A Logrdquo Winblad Von Walter Continues Ldquothe Other Half Consists Of The Woodrsquos Binding Agent Which Is Mostly An Energyrich Substance Called Lignin We Burn This In The Recovery Boiler And It Produces Enough Steam And Electricity To Cover More Than 90 Per Cent Of Our Energy Needsrdquo A Fossilfree Energy Supply Is Not The Only Benefit From Iggesundrsquos New Recovery Boiler After The Boiler Had Been Fine Tuned It Turned Out That Particle Emissions From The Mill Which Were Already Low Had Been Halved Sulphur Emissions Which Contribute To The Acidification Of Surrounding Land Have Also Fallen By More Than 80 Per Cent From What Were Already Low Levels