European database for cartonboard and carton production, 2023

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33 into cartons. This process and the data collected mirrors the data collection and life cycle inventories presented by other sectors in the paper and board packaging industry 5 . Therefore, Pro Carton intends to continue to collect and process the data using the same methods and present the information in the same format. More recently, the European Commission has proposed the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) as a common way of measuring environmental performance 6 . To facilitate the adoption of the PEF methodology, the European Commission is developing a database of life cycle inventory data. Category rules for compiling life cycle studies in compliance with the PEF methodology are also in development. PEF category rules have already been published for Intermediate Paper Products 7 , but no category rules have been published covering the conversion of these into end products. The PEF methodology is still in development and open to discussion, and category rules are currently only available for the production of base papers not including conversion. Therefore, whilst the data for this life cycle inventory has been collected with reference to the PEF and, where relevant, the Product Category rules for Intermediate Paper Products, no claim of compliance with the PEF methodology or data requirements is made. Results Life cycle inventory for cartonboard and cartons 2021 Table 2 presents the gate-to-gate life cycle inventories for: • Production of cartonboard manufactured primarily from primary fibres: Folding Box Board (FBB) and Solid Bleached Board/Solid Unbleached Board (SBB/SUB) • Production of cartonboard manufactured primarily from recovered fibres: White Lined Chip (WLC) • Conversion of cartonboard into blank cartons, including die cutting, creasing, printing and where applicable folding/gluing • An aggregated dataset, which considers the production of average European cartonboard and the conversion of this average cartonboard into cartons. 5 e.g., European Database for Corrugated Board Life Cycle Studies, FEFCO and Cepi Containerboard, 2021 6 https://eplca.jrc.ec.europa.eu/EnvironmentalFootprint.html?msclkid=d1c44024bd6311ec9a316 02979545205 7 Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules: Intermediate Paper Products, CEPI, October 2018 © RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Recycled cartonboard Virgin cartonboard Carton conversion Aggregated average board production and cartton conversion 34 Table 2 Gate-to-gate life cycle inventories PRODUCT & REFERENCE FLOW tonne net saleable product 1 1 1 1 SOLD BYPRODUCTS Tall oil/Tall soap kg/t 0.00 0.39 - 0.23 Turpentine kg/t 0.00 0.11 - 0.06 RAW MATERIAL Wood consumption as bone dry weight (= 45% of transported total wet weight) Softwood logs – total t/t 0.006 0.380 - 0.230 Hardwood logs t/t 0.000 0.153 - 0.091 Sawmill residues softwood t/t 0.031 0.125 - 0.093 Sawmill residue hardwood t/t 0.000 0.005 - 0.003 Total wood t/t 0.037 0.633 - 0.398 Recovered paper as wet mass Mixed grades t/t 0.707 0.017 - 0.415 Corrugated and Kraft, preconsumer t/t 0.024 0.000 - 0.014 Corrugated and Kraft, postconsumer t/t 0.019 0.000 - 0.011 Newspaper and Magazines t/t 0.018 0.000 - 0.010 Other grades t/t 0.077 0.003 - 0.045 Total recovered paper t/t 0.845 0.020 - 0.496 Purchased pulp consumption as bone dry weight Bleached kraft pulp, eucalyptus kg/t 0.0 10.8 - 6.4 Bleached kraft pulp, hardwood kg/t 1.0 154.9 - 92.9 Bleached kraft pulp, softwood kg/t 0.0 40.9 - 24.4 Bleached sulphite pulp, hardwood kg/t 0.0 38.7 - 23.1 Mechanical wood pulp kg/t 26.1 0.0 - 15.0 Semi-chemical wood pulp kg/t 0.5 99.8 - 59.7 Thermomechanical pulp kg/t 0.0 18.9 - 11.3 Unbleached kraft pulp, softwood kg/t 0.0 0.7 - 0.4 CTMP kg/t 0.3 1.8 - 1.2 Other kg/t 5.8 12.5 - 10.8 Total purchased pulp kg/t 33.6 378.9 - 245.2 Paper consumption for carton production Total t/t - - - 1.169 © RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
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Page 3 and 4: 3 Sustainable forest management ...
Page 5 and 6: 5 Foreword Pro Carton, the European
Page 7 and 8: 7 Executive summary This report is
Page 9 and 10: 9 • White Lined Chipboard WLC (al
Page 11 and 12: 11 provide some degree of water res
Page 13 and 14: 13 Figure 2 Typical layout of a car
Page 15 and 16: 15 For those paper mills producing
Page 18 and 19: 17 System boundaries for carton pro
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Page 26 and 27: 23 Some converting plants use gravu
Page 28 and 29: 25 Material outputs The main output
Page 30 and 31: 27 The reported weighted averages o
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Page 34 and 35: 31 Figure 7 Potential credit for re
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Page 48 and 49: 45 the mill per tonne of virgin car
Page 50 and 51: 47 Peer review The study presented
Page 52 and 53: 49 Annex 1: Peer review statement
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