Bio-Insight

UPM satisfied with Finnish government's decision on nuclear power

Posted in: Bio-Insight 04/21/2010 - 04:38

ÅF appointed lead consultant for Bomhus Energi project at Korsnäs industrial site in in Sweden

Posted in: Bio-Insight 04/18/2010 - 20:05

STOCKHOLM, April 19, 2010 (Press Release) -ÅF has been appointed lead technical consultant for the investment in a new block heat power plant on the Korsnäs industrial site in Gävle, Sweden, adjacent to the company's pulp and paper mill.

This ÅF assignment is a multidisciplinary EPCM project that covers all areas of technology relating to the investment, including project management and administration.

The order is worth approximately SEK 50 million (approx. EUR 5 million) for ÅF.

From pulp and paper to helicopter fuel!

Posted in: Bio-Insight 04/18/2010 - 16:00

Howe Sound to invest $6M in clean energy under Canadian funding program

Posted in: Bio-Insight 04/16/2010 - 11:23

Clearwater using wood slash for biofuel at Idaho mill

Posted in: Bio-Insight 04/13/2010 - 11:11

SPOKANE, WA, April 13, 2010 (The Spokesman-Review) -The grinder sucked in lodgepole pine branches. It chewed them up and spit out wood chips. About two dozen logging contractors watched Monday as the Bruks mobile grinder, a Swedish- made machine, consumed a two-story-high slash pile on Bunco Road near Silverwood Theme Park.

The chips will be trucked to a Lewiston pulp mill and burned for power generation.

Modern Machinery Co., a heavy equipment dealer in Spokane, arranged the demonstration.

The Spokesman-Review - Wood slash becomes biofuel for paper mill

Metsä Tissue to invest in reserve boiler for Mänttä mill in Finland

Posted in: Bio-Insight 04/13/2010 - 01:37

ESPOO, Finland, April 12, 2010 (Press Release) -Mäntän Energia, an energy company owned 45 per cent by Metsä Tissue, is investing EUR 3.1 million in a 50 megawatt reserve boiler this spring. The boiler will be transferred from M-real's Lielahti mill to replace Mäntän Energia's idle coal-burning reserve boiler.

This replacement will ensure safe and undisturbed supply of heat and electricity to Metsä Tissue's Mänttä mill, which consumes approximately 84 per cent of the heat and 100 per cent of the energy produced annually by Mäntän Energia.