Chemical & Engineering News, Vol.95, No.22, 28-29, 2017
BIOBASED CHEMICALS Switching paper for chemicals
Europe's largest pulp and paper mill-in Skutskar, Sweden, 160 km north of Stockholm-is an exercise in economies of scale. Its three wood pulp digesters rise more than 50 m above the nearby Baltic Sea, and the stockpile of logs waiting to be converted into paper is 10 m deep and trails for kilometers into the distance.