Sustainability
It is Skjern Papirfabrik’s policy to optimise the products and processes through overall minded environmental work.
These efforts are implementing a sustainable production and management form.Since 1996 the mill has been issuing environmental reports, and has been certified in 1998 according to DS/EN ISO 14001 and also registered under the EMAS regulation.
The mill has its own biological-mechanical wastewater treatment plant and uses natural gas as its source of energy for production of steam.
Through intensive environmental work, Skjern Papirfabrik A/S meets the BAT note for the paper industry issued in July 2000, for the major forms of environmental impact:
- Energy consumption in the form of steam and electricity
- Water consumption
- Emissions to air and water
- Waste production
Other environment related activities of the mill:
Environmental approval since 1975
1997
- Energy willow forest on own areas
- Utilisation of soil amelioration residuals
- Source sorting of waste products
- Introduction of STEP (Systematic Tool for Environmental Progress)
- Commenced Life Cycle Analyses for the products of the mill
1998
- Recycling of residuals for thermal energy
1999
- CEVI centre for industrial water reduction
- NOVA aquatic environment project
2000
- Chemicals centre for chemicals in industrial production
- Energy management
- New environmental approval
- Introduction of LCM (Life Cycle Management)
- Pilot Project on occupational health and safety under the Ministry of Labour
Skjern Papirfabrik A/S sees environment and occupational health and safety as related, it is part of the mill’s environmental management system to educate and train staff with a view, to continuously reducing the external as well as the internal forms of environmental impact, along with current improvements of the physical working environment.
Related to environment, occupational health and safety, and energy, staff groups have been appointed for each department in the mill.
Here you can download our sustainability report 2008