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Sofidel Sweden, Kisa

Green tissue production,

Meva Energy´s renewable gas producing plant will be replacing fossil gas consumption at Sofidel’s tissue mill in Kisa, Sweden. Switching to renewable Meva gas, it is estimated that the mill will reduce its CO2 emissions by 8500 tons per year compared with the carbon footprint of today’s consumption of fossil LPG. By utilizing the generated biochar, a total of 10,300 tons of Co2 can be reduced. The fossil fuel free new plant is schedule to start up in the second quarter of 2023 with fuel locally produced out of wooden pellets.

Meva Energy´s renewable gas producing plant will be replacing fossil gas consumption at Sofidel Sweden's tissue mill in Kisa. Switching to renewable Meva gas, it is estimated that the mill will reduce its CO2 emissions by 8,500 tons per year compared with the carbon footprint of today’s consumption of fossil LPG. By utilizing the generated biochar, a side-stream product from the gasification process, a total of 10,000 tons of Co2 can be reduced. Sofidel Sweden’s “low carbon” tissue production is scheduled to start up in the second quarter of 2023 with fuel locally produced out of wooden pellets.

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10,000

Tons CO2 reduction 

4.5MW

Renewable gas capacity

2023

Startup

Simple integration

No need for rebuilding of combustion chambers except changing to multifuel burners

Replacing fossil gas

Replacing fossil LPG for process heat generation to tissue drying through industrial burners.

High quality boichar

As a side-stream from the gasification process, biochar is generated. One of the many application areas for this is to use it as soil improvement. Hence, except a potential income source, a carbon removal effect could be added to the whole solution.

Simple integration

No need for rebuilding of combustion chambers except changing to multifuel burners

Replacing fossil gas

Replacing fossil LPG for process heat generation to tissue drying through industrial burners.

High quality boichar

As a side-stream from the gasification process, biochar is generated. One of the many application areas for this is to use it as soil improvement. Hence, except a potential income source, a carbon removal effect could be added to the whole solution.

Renewable gas for tissue drying hoods

The existing drying system at Sofidel, including the combustion chambers will be kept, only the burners will be changed to multifuel burners to enable seamless switching between the existing gas solution to the lower calorific renewable syngas. Thereby, a full redundancy is enabled. The continuous and stable character of the process ensures that the gas supply exhibits extremely small level of variation. The decentralized principle of on-site generation in combination with not having to refine the gas to pure methane is the basis for reaching a high conversion efficiency as well as realizing high levels of CO2 emission reductions. Based on this, the Meva Energy technology can realize more substantial cuts of CO2 emissions than conventional types of biofuel. 

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At Sofidel, we believe in building an inclusive and sustainable future and in our commitment to minimize our impacts on natural capital and encourage the transition to a low-carbon economy we are increasingly focusing on renewable energy. The renewable gas supply agreement signed with Meva Energy will help Sofidel to achieve its 2030 emission reduction targets, that have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as consistent with the reductions needed to limit global warming to well below 2°C under the Paris Agreement. 
- Luigi Lazzareschi CEO, Sofidel Group

""At Sofidel, we believe in building an inclusive and sustainable future and in our commitment to minimize our impacts on natural capital and encourage the transition to a low-carbon economy we are increasingly focusing on renewable energy."" 

- Luigi Lazzareschi CEO, Sofidel Group

Europe’s second largest producer of tissue paper

The Sofidel Group is one of the leading manufacturers of paper for hygienic and domestic use worldwide. Established in 1966, the Group has subsidiaries in 13 countries – Italy, Spain, the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Romania and the USA – with more than 6,500 employees, and a production capacity of over one million tonnes per year (1,440,000 tonnes in 2022). Sofidel’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets to 2030 have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as consistent with reductions required to keep warming to well-below 2°C, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Group has also committed to Net Zero by 2050.

The development of the pioneering technology has been supported by studies carried out by Sofidel Corporate Technical Dept based in Lucca and ANDRITZ Novimpianti along with the Dept of Energy of University of Pisa (UniPi) related to utilizing low-calorific renewable gas for tissue drying.

 

SUMMARY

Location

Kisa, Sweden 

Customer challenge

Replacing their fossil LPG

Solution

Due to stability of the Meva Energy gas composition and very small variations of gas flow and pressure it is possible to replace existing fossil gases also in sensitive industrial processes, like drying of tissue paper at Sofidels mill in Kisa.