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Recovered fibre highlights
The main investment decision of the year in this respect concerns the construction of a new newsprint production line to utilise recycled paper at Langerbrugge Mill. The project also involves a new power plant, which will incinerate all the pulp mill's de-inking sludge, and the rebuilding of one of the mill's existing paper machines for Super Calendered paper production. The new newsprint line is expected to begin production in the first half of 2003.
Duluth Recycled Pulp Mill introduced two new products during 2001, enabling the mill to use a broader selection of recycled grades, and find sources of recovered fibre closer to the mill. Recycled pulp production increased by 15% from 2000 to 2001, largely due to the launch of the new products.
Also during 2001, Keräyskuitu Oy in Karhula invested in reject handling processes designed to separate materials according to their coarseness, so finer reject materials can be utilised for landscaping. This has reduced the amount of waste going to landfill by 90%. The renewal of the flotation process for de-inking at Keräyskuitu Oy was completed at the end of 2000, and in its first year of operation the renewed process improved fibre yield by 2%.
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