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Pulp Paper & Logistics
16 ABB
World’s most northerly paper mill
makes sustainable choices with ABB
Six breakers were replaced
with new Emax2 breakers
from ABB during a
production stop in 2022
n a slow-growing forest
in northern Sweden is a
unique raw material: trees
that produce extremely
strong paper. Every day, 130 log
trucks transport them to the
nearby Billerud site in Karlsborg,
the world’s most northerly paper
mill, where they are transformed
into mouldable paper branded
as FibreForm, kraft paper, sack
paper and bleached pulp in baled
form ‒ a total of 350,000 tons
every year.
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May/June 2023
Why buy new equipment when you can renovate and upgrade?
These are values that packaging giant Billerud lives by at its
Karlsborg mill in northern Sweden. So a retrofit by ABB with new
energy-efficient circuit breakers was a perfect match when its
decades-old switchgear needed new life. PPL reports
This level of production is
enabled in part by reliable
technology, which is regularly
tested and upgraded, and in part
by a dedicated workforce of 440
employees.
“There is a lot of expertise in
the area and many people who
work here have been doing it
for a long time,” says Mikael
Nordqvist, plant manager at
Billerud Karlsborg. “You can
work here all your life, but on
different things. We know that
many people who apply to us
do so to work with sustainability
and contribute to a sustainable
society.”
Located just outside the
town of Kalix, the mill is the
largest private employer in
the municipality. In addition
to its main production plant,
it houses two application