Recovered paper
Company has for many years been a driving force in the development of production methods based on the use of recovered fibre and has developed new methods enabling the use of recovered fibre as raw material. The company has also established company Recycling to collect and distribute recovered fibre.
The fibre, collected through company Recycling, is delivered to the Groups European packaging, tissue and graphic paper mills and meets 100% of their total recovered fibre requirements. It is also sold to third-party mills.
Recovered fibre is an important raw material for the Groups paper mills. During 2008, company paper mills globally used 4.4 million tonnes of recovered paper in its manufacturing. Approximately 1.6 million tonnes of recovered paper is collected, processed and delivered through companys own European collection organisation.
Besides supplying the own company paper mills companys European Recycling operation sold app. 1,5 million tonnes to third party customers.