Värö Mill
Södra Cell Värö · also known as Södra Värö, Södra Cell Värö Pulp Mill
OperatingSödrasodra.comID 00331
Värö Mill is an operating kraft pulp mill in Limabacka, Sweden, owned by Södra. With a capacity of 780 000 tonnes per year it is the 2nd largest of the 26 pulp mills in Sweden with a recorded capacity, and it produced 774 000 tonnes of pulp in 2022.
Location and logistics
- Location
- Limabacka, Västsverige, Sweden
- Site
- Södra Wood Värösawmill · 610 000 m3/y sawn timber
- Södra Värö pellet plantpellet plant · 80 000 t/y pellets
Shares the industrial site with the facilities listed. Each is its own record with its own capacity and status.- Nearest port
- Varberg · 14 kmStraight-line distance to the nearest major port. Method
- Rail siding
- Not yet verifiedOpenStreetMap track way/71834631 ↗, 240 m from the site point. Method
- Nearest railway
- 0.2 km
Map
Capacity and output
- Capacity
- 780 000 t/y pulp
- Production
- 774 000 t pulp2022 · annual report
- Utilisation
- 99 %
- Type
- Kraft
Raw material and products
Pulp grades
Also produces
Certifications
FSCPEFC
History and sources
Timeline
- expansionunsourced2022Phase 1 of Expansion Värö 2.0 completed; reached 780,000 t/y capacity
- other2022-03-31On 31 March 2022 the mill set a world speed record for softwood pulp drying at 466 air dried tonnes per day and metre of width.Source ↗
- expansion2021The Expansion Värö 2.0 debottlenecking project started up in October 2021, six months ahead of plan, raising capacity from 717,000 to 780,000 tonnes of softwood pulp per year through upgrades to brown stock washing, the fibre line and the drying line.Source ↗
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- expansion2016A major rebuild costing about four billion Swedish kronor came on stream in 2016 and lifted the mill from roughly 425,000 to 700,000 tonnes of softwood kraft pulp per year plus 1.6 TWh of energy.Source ↗
- startup1972The pulp mill at Värö was built and taken into operation in 1972, sited close to the forests of western Sweden and to a port for shipping pulp to customers.Source ↗
Sources
- otherchecked 2026-07-22valmet.com ↗
- otherchecked 2026-07-22gem.wiki ↗
- company websitechecked 2026-07-23sodra.com ↗
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- company websitechecked 2026-10-10sodra.com ↗
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