ADDRESSES Holmen Environmental information P. O. Box 5407 Group Technology, Lars Strömberg SE-114 84 STOCKHOLM Tel +46 8 666 21 54 Fax +46 8 666 21 35 Tel +46 8 666 21 00 e-mail: [email protected] 2001 Fax +46 8 666 21 30 Group Technology, Sven Wird Tel +46 8 666 21 32 Fax +46 8 666 21 35 e-mail: [email protected] Group Public Relations, Christer Lewell Tel +46 8 666 21 15 Fax +46 8 666 21 30 e-mail: [email protected] Holmen Paper Anders Lindström SE-601 88 NORRKÖPING Tel +46 11 23 64 04 Fax +46 11 23 60 30 Tel +46 11 23 50 00 e-mail: [email protected] Fax +46 11 23 63 04 Environmental Report Iggesund Paperboard Christer Söderberg SE-825 80 IGGESUND Tel +46 650 284 55 Fax +46 650 286 81 Tel +46 650 280 00 e-mail: [email protected] Fax +46 650 288 00 Iggesund Timber Magnus Dahlberg P. O. Box 45 Tel +46 650 280 39 Fax +46 650 284 48 SE-825 21 IGGESUND e-mail: [email protected] Tel +46 650 280 00 Fax +46 650 280 57 Holmen Skog Ola Kårén SE-891 80 ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK Tel +46 660 754 58 Fax +46 660 759 87 Tel +46 660 754 00 e-mail: [email protected] Fax +46 660 754 23 Holmen Kraft Jan Hållberg SE-891 80 ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK Tel +46 660 755 08 Fax +46 660 755 10 Tel +46 660 754 00 e-mail: [email protected] Fax +46 660 755 10 Holmen AB P. O. Box 5407, SE-114 84 STOCKHOLM Tel +46 8 666 21 00, fax +46 8 666 21 30 e-mail: [email protected] www.holmen.com CONTENTS HOLMEN AND THE ENVIRONMENT Dust MF paper Recycled fi bre Ash particles which are formed during the incineration of Includes standard and coloured newsprint (MF, Machine Wood fi bres from recovered paper. Environmental policy ..........................................1 Water ................................................................18 materials such as bark or liquor. Finished). Refi ner Holmen Environmental Report ...........................2 Waste ...............................................................20 Environmental audit Multiple-use forest plan A machine in which mechanical pulp is produced by This is Holmen ....................................................3 Former industrial sites ......................................21 An audit evaluating the functioning of a company’s A plan with an accompanying map of a particular forest grinding chips, usually after they have been pre-heated. Göran Lundin, President & CEO: Transportation ..................................................22 environmental protection organisation, management area, which contains all of the basic facts required for SBB procedures and environmental equipment. the forest to be cultivated and harvested in an economi- Multi-layered board made of bleached chemical pulp Environ mental activities with distinct benefi ts....4 Products ..........................................................23 cally sound and environmentally sustainable manner. The Environmental management system (SSB, Solid Bleached Board). 5 plan includes the biologically most valuable areas, which Environmental organisation ................................ A method of organising environmental activities in should either be excluded from harvesting or cultivated SC paper Highlights of 2001...............................................6 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES IN 2001 accordance with established procedures. An environ- using specially adapted methods. The plan also includes Super-calendered paper. Uncoated, glazed magazine mental management system requires an environmental Valuation of environmental activities ..................8 Holmen Paper ..................................................24 quantitative environmental targets and harvesting calcula- paper in grammages between 50 and 65 g/m2 (SC, policy, environmental goals, an action programme, an 10 26 tions which take environmental restrictions into consid- Super Calender). Global aspects of the environment .................. Iggesund Paperboard ...................................... environmental organisation, and environmental audits to eration. Iggesund Timber ..............................................28 control the results. The aim, based on the company’s Sedimentation basin USE OF RESOURCES Holmen Skog ...................................................29 environmental policy, is to achieve continuous improve- MWC paper Mechanical treatment of effl uent to separate out fi bres ments. ISO 14001 is one of the most widely used envi- Coated, wood-containing paper in grammages between and suspended solids (SS). Wood ................................................................12 Holmen Kraft ....................................................30 2 ronmental management systems. 80 and 110 g/m (MWC, Medium Weight Coated). SO2 Recovered paper..............................................14 External treatment N See Sulphur dioxide. Energy ..............................................................15 ALL THE FACTS Treatment of effl uent away from the actual production See Nitrogen. Softwood Group total .......................................................31 process. There are three main types: mechanical treat- Natural regeneration Pine or spruce wood. Has longer and stronger fi bres than ment, biological treatment and chemical treatment. ASPECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT Unit by unit .......................................................32 Forests established through natural seeding from unhar- hardwood. Forests .............................................................16 Glossary ...........................................................36 FBB vested seed-trees. SS Multi-layered paperboard made from mechanical and Nitrogen (N) Suspended Solids. Water-borne substances comprising Air .....................................................................17 chemical pulp (FBB, Folding Boxboard). A chemical element found in wood. Emissions of nitrogen fi bres and particles, most of which can be separated out Filler into water can cause eutrophication. Excess nitrogen in using a fi ne mesh fi lter. Filler is used to add bulk to paper and to make it more water can cause algal bloom and oxygen defi ciency. Stand zone uniform in structure and brighter. Various types of pig- An area which offers plant-life a uniform habitat. Charac- Nitrogen oxides (NOx) ment are used, including ground marble and china clay Gases composed of nitrogen and oxygen that are pro- terised by a particular climate and uniform soil properties (kaolin). duced during combustion. In moist air, nitrogen oxides and, broadly speaking, homogeneous fl ora and fauna. Fossil fuels can form nitric acid, which is then precipitated as acid Sulphate pulp Fuels based on carbon and hydrogen compounds from rain. Since the gas contains nitrogen, the emission of A chemical pulp that is made by cooking wood at a sediment and sedimentary rock – mainly coal, oil and nitrogen oxides can also have a fertilising effect. high pressure and temperature with white liquor (sodium fossil gas. hydroxide and sodium sulphide). The liquor dissolves the NOx FSC See Nitrogen oxides. bonding agent (lignin) in the wood to release the cellulose fi bres. Forest Stewardship Council. A worldwide organisation Old growth forest with its head offi ce in Mexico. The FSC has formulated Forest which has developed high natural values but Sulphur (S) ten basic principles that take into account the which is not virgin, primeval forest. Defi nition: pro- A chemical element found in sulphur dioxide, hydrogen environmental, economic and social aspects of forestry in nounced uneven-aged, multi-layered natural forests with sulphide and other malodorous gases. The sulphur in all parts of the world. The Swedish FSC standard has an abundance of old, large trees and dead wood in emissions from the pulp industry mainly derives from been adapted to the specifi c conditions in Sweden. various stages of degradation. cooking and bleaching chemicals and from oil. Other countries have also adapted their national Sulphur dioxide (SO ) standards in the same way. The Swedish FSC standard Oxygen saturation 2 A gas consisting of sulphur and oxygen that is formed has the support of forest companies, environmental A measure of the quantity of oxygen that exists dissolved during the combustion of sulphur-containing fuels such organisations, customers, the Sami people, the Swedish in water. Oxygen saturation can vary from over 100 per as black liquor and oil. On contact with moist air, sulphur Church and trade unions. cent in clean water to 0 per cent in highly polluted water. dioxide forms sulphuric acid, which contributes to the P Groundwood pulp acidifi cation of rain and other forms of precipitation. A type of mechanical pulp. Made by abrading de-barked See Phosphorus. Tall oil logs against a rotating stone grinder. PCB Extracted from black liquor and used as a raw material in Persistent, slowly degradable compounds. Used, for IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) the production of soaps and paints. It can also be used example, in electrical equipment such as transformers EU directive relating to integrated, application procedures as fuel in the lime kiln instead of oil. and supervision of major industrial companies. and condensers. Thinning PEFC ISO 14001 The thinning out of middle-aged forest, after which the The Pan European Forest Certifi cation (PEFC) scheme The standard drawn up by the International Organisation harvested trees can be used as pulpwood in the produc- ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT 2001 was the initiative of private forest owners in 17 European for Standardisation (ISO) for designing