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Gruvön Mill

Gruvön Mill · also known as Gruvön

Gruvön Mill is an operating kraft pulp mill in Slottsbron, Sweden, with a capacity of 685 000 tonnes per year.

Company
Billerud AB (publ)
Group
Billerud
WoodComp ID
00113 (how IDs work)
Country
Sweden
City
Slottsbron
Status
Operating
Capacity
685 000 t/y pulp
Board: not recorded (reported production, no capacity figure recorded)
Paper: not recorded (integrated papermaking; no paper capacity figure recorded)
Production
Board: 262 000 t (2004, environmental report)
capacity measures pulp; this figure is board
Paper: 304 000 t (2004, environmental report)
capacity measures pulp; this figure is paper
Type
Kraft
Region
Norra Mellansverige
Website
billerud.com

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Raw material

PineSpruce

Products

Pulp grades
NBSK
Paper products
Fluting Medium PaperLinerboardLiquid packaging board
Byproducts
ElectricityTall oil

Certifications

FSCPEFC

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Related facilities

Gruvön Mill is the 7th largest pulp mill in Sweden of the 26 with a pulp capacity figure in WoodComp's register.

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Karlsborg Mill ·Quinnesec Mill ·Rockhammar Mill ·Escanaba Mill ·Frövi Mill
Largest pulp mills in Sweden
Östrand Mill ·Värö Mill ·Braviken Paper Mill ·Mönsterås Mill ·Husum Mill
Nearest facilities
Gruvöns sågverk (1 km) ·Skoghall Mill (19 km) ·Säffle Mill (25 km) ·Moelven Edanesågen (36 km) ·Rottneros Mill (51 km)

Timeline

  1. 2022other

    An electric boiler was installed at the mill in 2022 as part of the phase out of fossil fuels.

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  2. 2019-10-03expansion

    The new board machine KM7 was inaugurated on 3 October 2019 with a capacity of 550,000 tonnes per year of liquid packaging board, white top kraftliner, cartonboard and cup stock.

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  3. 1931startup

    The first paper machine at Gruvön, PM1, was started up in 1931.

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  1. 1929founded

    Billerud AB began building a sulphate pulp mill with a kraft paper mill at Gruvön in 1929.

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  2. -product added

    In the early 1950s the mill produced the world's first liquid packaging board.

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Sources

Data confidence: Medium (74 of 100) how this is computed

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