Valmet has made significant strides toward carbon neutrality. After achieving major milestones in its climate program, Valmet targets to reduce the CO2 emissions in its supply chain by 20 percent and enable 100 percent carbon-neutral production for all its pulp and paper customers by 2030.
Dec 13, 2023
Valmet launched its climate program – Forward to a carbon-neutral future – in 2021 with ambitious CO2 reduction targets across the entire value chain. During the first two years of the program implementation, they have taken many steps forward. Their technologies already enable 100 percent carbon-neutral pulp, board, paper, tissue, and energy production. In addition, by the end of 2023, they will achieve 100 percent carbon neutrality in their electricity purchases in Finland and Sweden. Valmet strives to reduce the CO2 emissions in its supply chain by 20 percent by 2030. Valmet targets to enable 100 percent carbon-neutral production for all its pulp and paper customers by 2030 by developing new process technologies, and by improving the energy efficiency of its current offering by 20 percent.
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Mr. Jani Suomalainen, VP, Supply Chain at Valmet, says “Already 75 high-emitting suppliers have committed to reducing their emissions. In addition to the extensive e-learning material we offer, our Supply Chain experts all over the world are available for hands-on support, whether it is about increasing the use of recycled raw materials or CO2 -neutral electricity, changing fossil fuel-based production systems to renewable energy or developing low-carbon logistics chains.”
Ms. Victoria Larsson, VP, HSE at Valmet, says, “We have taken significant steps with CO2 emission reduction from fuels, heating, and electricity in our offices and production units around the world. Emissions from these areas have reduced by 34% from the baseline year 2019. Low-carbon hydroelectricity is being used in our Canada locations and in Jiading, China, and several locations in the USA and Europe are using other renewable energy for their electricity, just to name a few examples. In addition, by the end of 2023 we will achieve 100% carbon-neutrality in our electricity purchases in the Nordic countries Finland and Sweden. The impact is significant, as these countries represent 60% of Valmet’s total electricity consumption.”
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“When it comes to the first target, enabling 100 percent carbon neutral production, we have had excellent progress as we already reached our goal in 2023. We now offer carbon neutral production opportunities for our pulp, paper, board, and tissue customers, with the precondition that the customer has bioenergy or carbon neutral electricity in use. Carbon neutral production can be achieved by combining the best available technologies, optimizing mill design and selecting the right automation, Industrial Internet and service solutions. Having achieved this target, the focus currently is on the customers that don’t have bioenergy or carbon neutral electricity in use yet. Together with those customers, we are trying to find ways to use different energy sources with different equipment and machinery. We are well prepared to do so, as Valmet has already long enabled carbon neutral heat and power production with our biomass-based energy solutions – in fact, many of our customers’ chemical pulp mills using our technologies already are bioenergy self-sufficient, promoting carbon neutral pulp production,” says Mr. Janne Pynnönen, VP R&D at Valmet.
