May 28, 2014. /Lesprom Network/. Fiskeby starts construction of biogas plant. During the summer the initial ground work next to the existing water treatment plant takes place. In August installation of process equipment will begin and the facility is scheduled to be completed in 2015. The production volume is estimated to be about 9 million Nm3 biogas per year, equivalent to an energy content of approximately 9 million kWh per year. Biogas is a renewable energy source and will replace electricity in the production of white lined chipboard, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

“With the biogas plant Fiskeby will increase our self-sufficiency in energy,” says Torbjörn Hansen, CEO of Fiskeby. In addition, the new biogas plant will relieve the company's existing water treatment plant in a tangible way. The expanded treatment capacity will reduce the company's environmental impact and provide the potential for increased board production.

The investment amounts to SEK 33 million ($5 million), of which the Swedish Energy Agency has granted SEK 12.6 million ($2 million).

“Supplier of the biogas plant is the Dutch company Paques bv,” says Kerstin Ekestubbe, Project Manager at Fiskeby.

Fiskeby will be the first in the Swedish forest industry to use so-called UASB technology (Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket) and Fiskeby will become the national reference site for this new develpoment.