SCA Upgrades Munksund Recovery Operations with Biofueled Lime Kiln
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SCA, Sweden, has invested approximately SEK 490 million in a biofuel-fired lime kiln at its Munksund packaging paper mill in Piteå in northern Sweden. Through this investment, SCA Munksund reduces its carbon footprint, its emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, by 75%.
The lime kiln is part of the chemical recovery systems at SCA Munksund. The old oil-fueled lime kiln from 1966 has been a bottleneck for the packaging paper mill's continued development.
"The technology to use wood pellets instead of fuel oil for an advanced installation such as a lime kiln has been developed at SCA's Östrand pulp mill in Timrå," Ulf Larsson, president of SCA Forest Products, noted. "The very good experience from there is now brought into the project in Munksund."
In addition to the lime kiln, the investment includes an electro-precipitator and other supporting equipment, along with equipment for the processing and storing of wood pellets. The new lime kiln will allow for a certain increase in the production of packaging paper at the mill, but more importantly it will allow for a continued positive development of production and products at the Munksund paper mill.
"Through SCA's investments in Munksund, we will be able to produce a broader portfolio and products with a higher quality. Our processes will become more efficient and, not the least, the environmental effects of the paper mill are radically reduced. We will be able to offer better and more sustainable products" said Per Embertsén, president at SCA Munksund."
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