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Smurfit Kappa to Invest $100 Million to Drive Down Emissions in Colombia

State-of-the-art biomass boiler to be powered by organic residue from the paper-making process.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Smurfit Kappa is investing almost $100 million in a sustainable biomass boiler, which will reduce its global Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO2 emissions by approximately 6%. The project is the latest example of the circularity that permeates the company’s operations. Smurfit Kappa has successfully implemented biomass boilers at several other locations including the Nervion, Piteå and Sangüesa paper mills in Europe. The boiler, which will be constructed at its paper mill in Yumbo, Colombia, will repl...

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