Norway has halted a 300,000-ton-per-year bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp (BCTMP) mill project at Viken Skog’s Follum site—a joint venture between Billerud and Norway’s forest owners cooperative Viken Skog—due to potential violations of the EU’s water framework directive.
Meanwhile, Valmet has announced plans to supply a new BCTMP line and a related evaporator line to JK Paper Limited’s Fort Songadh mill in India, with the start-up scheduled for the end of 2025.
Currently, India’s mills consume nearly twice as much water per ton of market pulp produced compared to Sweden.
Despite noble intentions, political decisions can sometimes fall short of ideal outcomes.
