Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Stora Enso and Volvo Cars officially opened a new hot water pipeline between their manufacturing sites in Ghent, Belgium, on November 18, 2016. The four-kilometre pipeline will take hot water heated using renewable energy from Stora Enso’s paper mill to the Volvo plant, where it will be used to heat buildings and paint booths. The annual reductions in CO₂ emissions correspond to the heating of 5,000 households.
Thanks to the pipeline, Volvo Cars will use substantially lower amounts of fossil fuels for heating – also reducing the plant’s CO₂ emissions and energy costs. The project will lead to emission reductions estimated at 15,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year, cutting the Ghent plant’s total CO₂ emissions by more than 40 per cent.
The company’s Europe-wide CO₂ emissions will be reduced by 24 per cent, as a result of this joint project with Stora Enso.
Stora Enso has committed to reduce the company’s use of fossil fuels to as close to zero as is technically and economically feasible over the next ten years. This cooperation with Volvo is an example of the collaborative efforts Stora Enso is taking to combat global warming. Twelve of Stora Enso’s mills are currently linked to local district heating systems, significantly reducing the use of oil and other fossil fuels in these localities. The project in Belgium was initiated in 2014.
Chris De Hollander, managing director of Stora Enso’s Langerbrugge Mill, said, “The construction of a system of industrial district heating outside our premises and the delivery of external renewable energy to Volvo Car Gent will lead to increased energy efficiency, which is beneficial to the environment and increases the use of our assets.”
Stora Enso’s paper mill at Langerbrugge produces 550 000 tonnes of newsprint and magazine paper a year, made entirely from recycled paper.
Tags: Belgium, CO₂ emissions, fossil fuels, Langerbrugge Mill, Paper, paper mill, pipeline, recycled paper, renewable energy, renewable energy pipeline, Stora Enso
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