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Tullis Russell Papermakers go Greener!

At the beginning of 2013, Tullis Russell papermakers in Scotland announced a new Biomass plant at their mill in Markinch, Scotland. As fossil fuel supplies are ever increasingly running low, the Biomass plant with an estimated build cost of £200 million is set to replace the existing coal fired plant by using waste material such as woodchip and other plant based materials.

Hambleside are currently representatives for the UK based papermakers in West Africa and are excited of this new development as it can be used as another unique selling point in addition to the wide range of papers that we can offer our West African customers.

The Tullis Russell biomass plant will supply around 47Mw of electrical energy with around 18Mw being fed directly into the mill whilst the remaining energy will be sold to the national grid to supply other businesses and homes.

It has been announced that approximately half a million tonnes of recycled wood will be used annually to power the plant.