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Cogeneration facility feeds grid at Fortress
completed and power is now being delivered to the grid. The plant was installed at the
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Specialty Cellulose Mill at Thurso in Québec and following a mandatory 100-hour grid test was able to sell
ests of a new cogeneration plant at a Fortress Paper mill in Canada have been
power to the Hydro Québec grid at the commercial rate. Chief executive Chadwick
Wasilenkoff said: “We are very pleased that the final stage of testing for the cogeneration facility at the FSC Mill has been successfully completed and that the company is now delivering power to the Hydro Québec grid at
the contracted rate. “This will reduce our production
costs at the mill and create a legacy of environmentally-friendly power production for the region.” Since the sale of its speciality- paper Dresden Mill to Glatfelter Gernsbach in Germany earlier this year, Fortress Paper has concentrated on two business segments: dissolving pulp and security paper products. Fortress also wants to expand its dissolving pulp capacity with the recent acquisition of Fortress Global Cellulose Mill at Lebel-sur- Quévillon in Québec, which is being evaluated to convert into a dissolving pulp mill and re-start the cogeneration facility. Fortress runs its security paper products business at the Landqart
Fortress boss Chadwick Wasilenkoff: Creating a legacy of environmentally friendly power production
Mill in Switzerland, where it produces banknote, passport, visa and other brand protection and security papers, and at its high security production and research facility located in Canada, where it manufactures optically variable thin film material. Prior to the sale of the Dresden
mill for €160 million (US$216m), yearly sales at Fortress were about CDN$314 million ($301m).
Improvement in traceability of wood fibre for cartons
Significant progress has been made towards achieving full third-party verified traceability of globally-sourced wood fibre used by beverage carton manufacturers represented by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE), says the organisation. According to the sixth annual
Proforest report on the Chain of Custody (CoC) commitment made in 2007 by ACE UK members – Tetra Pak, Elopak and SIG Combibloc – 88 per cent of wood fibre purchased
November 2013
globally by these companies in 2012 was either FSC certified fibre or originated from FSC controlled wood. This is 3 percentage points up on 2011. The latest figure means
that ACE members are said to be well on track to meet their commitment to source 100 per cent wood fibre that is traceable to legal and acceptable sources by 2015. Some 100 per cent of the fibre already used in the EU already comes from plants that are FSC chain of custody certified. In
addition, 43 (81 per cent) of the 53 converting plants owned by ACE beverage carton producers
worldwide are now FSC chain of custody certified, which is up from 74 per cent in 2011.
Pulp Paper & Logistics
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