Handling the incoming material with care is extremely important for a sustainable process. Some logs and log parts are too thin or in other ways unfit for making sawn goods. They are debarked and turned into wood chips. Wood chips from sawmills is also collected as a raw material for papermaking.
The wood is cut into chips, screened, and stored in silos before refining, to reduce exposure to sunlight. This gives our papers a higher natural brightness and less need for bleaching. There are quality controls in every step of the production and the material has to be used while fresh to ensure the paper quality.
In the pulping process, the fresh fibres are separated without losing strength and elasticity. The quality of the fresh wood-fibres enables our paper to be thicker and uphold all the properties that thicker papers normally do, yet they are still lightweight. A term used for this is bulk.
Our paper products are used for packaging, books, notebooks, magazines and printed advertising. The paper properties probably differ from what you are used to, when looking at the technical data sheets. When choosing one of our papers, you can often use a lower basis weight than you are used to for your production, and this will lead to that the end product will cause less CO2 emissions, since less paper is used.
