Swedish cardboard manufacturer Iggesund on Tuesday started a new EUR-240-million recovery boiler at its mill.

The recovery boiler is the heart of a sulphate pulp mill and serves this function at Iggesund Mill, which produces the quality paperboard Invercote.
The boiler represents the largest investment ever done by Iggesund and will in the long term enable the company to run the mill entirely on bio energy and to become self sufficient on energy, says Iggesund in a press release. "The boiler is also built to withstand higher pressure than any other recovery boiler in Europe, and will work with a steam pressure of 110 bar. This increased pressure makes it possible to generate more electricity," says the company.
Concurrently with the investment in its recovery boiler in Sweden, Iggesund is also investing EUR 123 million in a biomass boiler in Workington, England. Both investments will help reduce fossil carbon emissions from the mills. (ci)