More recycling and less waste to landfills 

Recycling of old newspapers and magazines

A unique method developed by Stora Enso and Chematur Engineering makes it possible to reuse the fillers, which are part of the residues from recover of used paper. Instead of being a problem and sent to landfills, fillers now have become valuable raw material for new paper.

The new method is used at Hylte Mill which up to now has used about half and half of recovered fibre and virgin pulp in their newsprint production. Fillers have the same value as virgin fibre from the forest and are therefore a very desireable raw material.

The patented method is a wet oxidization process and the trials were carried out in 2000. The research phase of the project is now completed and the actual production process is being finely tuned. The method for recycling of fillers is part of a process aiming for making use of all the different types of material in the waste paper – not only the fibres.

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