Södra Cell Värö World's First Fossil-Fuel-Free Pulp Mill

 Södra Cell, Sweden, reports that it has now completed investments that make its Värö mill in Sweden the world's first fossil-fuel-free pulp mill. The company has made extensive energy upgrades at Södra Cell Värö over the past few years. More recently, it spent SEK 600 million to build:

• New evaporation plant—for a more energy-efficient mill
• Feed water preheating—to produce more electricity
• Flue gas cooling—for more district heating
• Bark drying—for optimum fuel for district heating supplies.

These projects, just been completed this spring, are part of a program ongoing since 2002, with investments totaling SEK 1.7 billion to date.

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