The Papier- und Kartonfabrik Varel (PKV) will further develop its mill into a production capacity of one million tons of corrugated board papers and board in the coming years. The raw material is and remains recycled waste paper. At the same time, PKV is investing massively in energy efficiency. The company is currently implementing a seven-year strategy program with a total volume of around Euro 280 million to strengthen and modernize the site.
A new online duplex sheeter is currently being commissioned and tested on board machine 2. A milestone in the coming year will be the rebuild of the wire and press section of paper machine 4. This will increase PKV's production capacity for the established grades JadeWhite Classic and JadeKraft (from a total of 300,000 to 360,000 tonnes) and also improve energy efficiency. The machine will be shut down for around five weeks from February 2020.
PKV is also modernizing and expanding its board production, its process water treatment plant and its power plant (construction is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2020), thus continuously developing all plants and processes to increase production capacity by around 18% to one million tons. The proven division of 70% paper and 30% board production will be maintained in the future.
At the same time, PKV continues to invest out of conviction and emphatically in the conservation of natural resources. The energy consumption per ton already reduced by more than 24% since 2000 and thus the emission of CO2 is to be reduced by a further 23% in the coming years.
