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FOCUS: RENEWABLE ENERGY Now, SCA Energy is engaged in a wide range of renewable fuel projects. Some involve tapping energy from the forest itself, by using leftover treetops, branches, stumps and peat. Others involve alternative energy projects such as wind power or pellets made from sawdust. In addition, SCA Energy is looking at cutting-edge ways to convert forest components into energy-rich products like biooil, bio-coal and other types of fuel. From the forest itself, “grot” – the Swedish term for branches and treetops left over from timber harvesting – is a promising source of energy. “We collect it, take it to the road, and cure it by letting it dry in the wind and sun,” Westberg says. “Then we chip it and supply it to heat and power plants, and also to our own factories, for heat production.” STUMPS REPRESENT another valuable resource, never used before. “Harvesting them is a rather small activity today, but we see the potential,” he says. “There’s a lot of biomass in stumps, and it’s very good fuel.” After a tree is cut down, a machine pulls the stump out of the ground, along with some of the roots. “You split that and shake it hard to get rid of stones and sand, then you dry it in the forest for about a year. After that, you chip it and take it to the customer.” Where conditions are too boggy for trees, peat may thrive. An early stage of coal, peat contains plenty of energy. “We have a lot of peat moss in Sweden, and it’s growing all the time,” Westberg says. SCA harvests peat in three areas and is adding a fourth area 12 SCA SHAPE 32011 SCA’S ANNUAL SALES OF RENEWABLE ENERGY ARE ALREADY ABOUT SEK 800M SCA OWNS 2.6 MILLION HECTARES OF FORESTLAND The fuel component was the little brother. It wasn't much talked about. Åke Westberg this year. “We say it’s slowly renewable, because it takes some time to replace itself.” Harvesting involves fl uffi ng the peat a few centimeters deep, by machine, and letting that dry in the sun. Then that layer gets collected and stored in a dry place, while the next layer of peat gets fl uff ed. “We do that all summer. Then when the winter comes, we supply our customers, who burn it.” Production could be increased substantially. PELLETS MADE FROM sawmill dust represent another type of forest product. SCA purchased a pellet industry several years ago, as part of the sawmill sector. Now, the business is being developed in a more serious manner. Production of all these biomass products will likely need to ramp up in the next decade, as Europe gets serious about reducing its carbon footprint. “If the politicians stick to their goals, then a lot of the coal in Europe will have to be replaced,” Westberg says. “We in Scandinavia will need to supply some of the biomass, and it will be a huge market.” One critical question for the future is this: How can biomass be transported all the way from northern Sweden to the rest of Europe in an effi cient way? Ultimately, Sweden will need to produce products that are energy-rich. The technologies for creating these products are new or still being developed. Will forest resources like tree stumps be heated under pressure and made into bio-oil? Or bio-coal? Or a diff erent form of biofuel? “We don’t actually know yet,” Westberg says. “We are looking into this. As new processes come online, we are following them very closely.” And so are Europe’s politicians.
SCA is thinking renewable across the globe... ENERGY FROM HOUSEHOLD WASTE GERMANY SCA’s paper mill in Witzenhausen, Germany, gets all of its energy from a resource we’ll never run out of: processed household waste. The Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF) power plant opened in March of 2009. “We were among the fi rst to use this energy source for a paper mill,” says Niels Flierman, general manager at the Witzenhausen plant. “It’s relatively new technology.” The household waste is screened and sorted into different fractions of caloric value, one of them being RDF. Fluidized bed combustion is used to incinerate the RDF for steam production. This highpressure steam passes a steam turbine which produces low-pressure steam for drying paper as well as electrical power for the plant. Although operation of the new RDF power plant is more complex than the mill’s old gas-fi red plant, SCA has reaped both economic and environmental benefi ts from the conversion. The plant has cut costs and greatly reduced its dependence on fossil fuel. The plant has won local support, in part by using sophisticated fl ue gas cleaners to keep emissions low. Neighbors who were concerned about air pollution have been won over. “We operate under extremely strict limits for emissions, and we stay well below even those.” GERMANY Witzenhausen Oława COAL-FREE POWER POLAND POLAND Coal remains the main source of electricity in Poland. But at its diaper plant in Oława, SCA has found a greener path. “Effective January 1, 2011, our power plant uses exclusively renewable energy,” says Aleksandra Karpinska-Goralik, communications coordinator for SCA in Poland. “We are the fi rst SCA personal care products factory to get 100 percent of its electricity from wind power.” The electricity is generated by Suwałki Wind Park in rural northeast Poland. Although this is far from SCA’s factory in the southwest, the German power company RWE (Rheinisch- Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk) certifi es that all of the plant’s electricity comes from the wind farm. “I think this is a big advantage for us,” says Karpinska-Goralik. “We don’t just talk about sustainability – we have the facts to support it. SCA SHAPE 32011 13
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