SCA invests in fossil-free heating at Bogrundet nursery in Timrå, Sweden. Construction will begin this spring and will include two stages, to allow the nursery to continue operating throughout the construction period. If everything goes according to plan, the facility will begin operation in April 2022.
The Bogrundet nursery in Timrå is the world’s largest tree nursery and SCA grows about 95 million seedlings here every year. The company has been looking for a climate-friendly and good technical solution for some time to heat the 14 greenhouses and avoid the use of oil.
“It is great that we have finally found a good solution. The new heating facility will consist of two large pellets boilers. The pellets will be delivered from SCA’s pellets factory in Härnösand,” says Thomas Vestman, Nursery Manager, and continues:
“We are also pleased that we can benefit the climate and SCA’s sustainability work, which has the forest as a central component – and the first steps toward new forest begin in the nursery. The seedlings will now be given a particularly green start! The investment will reduce our oil consumption by 430 cubic meters per year. Since the combustion instead will be one with pellets, it means about 1,000 tonnes less of carbon dioxide emissions annually. We will have a completely fossil-free facility which will be the largest of its kind for this type of nursery,” says Thomas.
“The technical solution uses a centrally placed heating plant with two pellets furnaces that are equipped with flue gas cleaning that reduces emissions of dust to a minimum applying the best available technology (BAT),” explains Urban Rosdahl, who is project manager at Bogrundet. He continues:
“The heat produced will then be distributed to the greenhouses through district heating pipes made from insulated steel. The pipes distribute hot water out to 28 heat exchanger units in the greenhouses. These units are specially designed for our needs and provide the best effect in terms of heating and flow – all of which to help every forest plant grow optimally.”
The core of SCA’s business is the forest, Europe’s largest private forest holding.
