Holmen Braviken

Braviken

From pulp to paper at record speed.The demands on a modern newsprint paper mill are both numerous and extensive. The mill must be able to deliver several thousand tonnes of high-quality paper every day. So the tempo is very high. All processing, the entire flow from raw materials to finished product, must function like clockwork so that customers can go on printing their newspapers – day in and day out, all year round. At the same time the quality requirements for the paper are constantly increasing to meet growing customer demands for razor-sharp four-colour printing in ever faster printing processes. Nothing must go wrong!

Satisfying all of these demands requires a paper mill with one of the most efficient production capabilities in the world. One exactly like Braviken, located just outside Norrköping.

Braviken paper is called wood-containing and is manu factured using a mechanical process – unlike so-called “fine” paper, which is manufactured using a chemical boiling process and then bleached. Spruce wood is used as raw material, together with large quantities of recycled paper. This means that Braviken’s paper is of a quality best suited for use in products with short to medium life cycles.

More than half of the paper produced in Braviken Paper Mill is standard newsprint. A bare third is used for telephone directories and the rest is for coloured newsprint – a grade that is very popular for sports and financial newspapers throughout the world.

The average weight of paper leaving Braviken is about 42 g/m². As a comparison, ordinary copying paper is about 80 g/m².

Demands on the paper’s technical properties are getting higher and higher. Our customers’ printing presses are getting faster and faster. This means that the paper must have optimum runnability properties adapted to a range of customer technical requirements.

At the same time both advertisers and readers are plac-ing higher quality demands on low-weight newsprint and directory paper – it must be able to handle four-colour printing on both sides. And it’s when all of these properties have to be combined that the paper from Braviken shows its true class.

This is what we do.

Newsprint and directory paper of the highest quality.

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Braviken, PM53, at 06.32

Gustav Nilsson cleans up after an automatic tambour reel change. The PM53 is one of the world’s most modern newsprint paper machines, with a cruising speed of about 110 km/hour. Every day, the machine produces an 8.5 metre wide paper path equivalent to the distance between Braviken and Gibraltar.

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Two pulp manufacturing plants.One paper mill.Three paper machines.

This is how we do it.

Pulp used by the paper machines at Braviken is produced in two separate pulp manufacturing plants. The most important raw material is spruce from the nearby forests of middle Sweden. It is mainly the weaker sections of the tree that are used for pulp and paper production, the lower thicker parts being used for sawn timber. A large part of the pulpwood also consists of thinnings and sawmill chippings.

Manufacturing takes place on four production lines in a mechanical process that uses the TMP (Thermo-Mechanical Pulp) method. This thermo-mechanical process gives a high wood-to-pulp yield of 98% but consumes a lot of electricity when the wood chippings are broken up and the fibres crushed between the refiners’ grinding plates. The other important raw material at Braviken is recycled paper in the form of old daily newspapers, weekly magazines and telephone directories. This comes primarily from the Scandinavian countries and Great Britain by road or train and as return freight on our own vessels. The newspapers are pulped with water in a large drum, then cleaned, strained, washed and bleached on two modern and environmentally-adapted production lines. The DIP (De-Inked Pulp) resulting from this process contains about 85% re-used fibres.

The recycled paper pulp and TMP pulp are pumped to the paper machines, where they are mixed in the correct proportions. By the time the pulp reaches the paper machines it has been thinned down with water and contains only about 1% fibres. From the head box, the thin pulp mixture is spread out on the screen cloth in the machine’s wire section. The water is strained off and the fibres begin to form into a sheet of paper, which is passed on into the press section. Even more water is squeezed out here before the paper web continues into the machine’s long drying section. After passing through a large number of steam-heated drying cylinders, the paper is given a good printing surface in the double soft calender before it is finally wound onto a large so-called tambour.

At this point, the paper has a dry matter content of about 90%, the entire manufacturing cycle in the over 100-metre-long paper machine taking about 10 seconds. The large tambour reel is passed on to the winding machines for rewinding and cutting to the re-quired customer format. The final reels are packaged on a fully-automatic packing line, labelled and transferred to the warehouse to await loading onto the “Holmen Carrier” – one of our vessels. Braviken’s three large paper machines have the designations PM51, PM52 and PM53.

The PM51 is today Bravikens specialist machine for directory and catalogue paper of very thin grammages. The machine was the first to be installed for newsprint production in Braviken when the mill started up in 1977. Several modifications and upgrades have taken place since then to adapt the technology and performance to meet today’s demands for high product quality.

When you pass a newsstand in Sweden – or in London, Berlin, Paris or any other big city in the world – it’s highly likely that several of the large newspapers have been printed on paper from Braviken. More than 80% of all paper produced is exported to markets outside Sweden. The largest markets are of course Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy and France.

Our customers are primarily the daily press and media houses, and telephone directory printers and publishers. In the case of directory paper, a comprehensive product transformation has occurred in recent years due mainly to the reduction in volume of telephone directories at

the same time as product and mail-order catalogues with advanced colour printing have become more common. Product development at Braviken often occurs in close cooperation with customers, whose new newspaper and catalogue projects often require new paper grades, colours or printing properties. Another strength of Holmen Paper is that we can offer our customers complete solutions with several different grades of paper for different uses – for the main newspaper, sports pages and supplements, for example. The rise and development of free dailies has also strengthened the position of printed news sheets with readers and advertisers.


News, finance, business, sport, directories and catalogues.

Here’s what our paper is used for.

Braviken, shipment, at 16.43 Smart, reliable logistics solutions are becoming an ever more important part of the customer delivery service. 80% of the paper reels leave Braviken by boat

from our own harbour destined for terminals in coastal markets in Europe. Deliveries to nearby markets are made by road, while transport to the markets in Central Europe is carried out by rail.

Sustainability and responsibility. These are two of the most important guiding stars in Holmen Paper’s long-term business strategy. We are here to stay as manufacturer and supplier and see it as our clear responsibility to continually reduce the effect of the operation on the environment.

We are entirely dependent on renewable resources. Nature and its forests must thrive for us to obtain good raw materials for our products. We also have a responsibility for the recycling of paper and every day collect large quantities of used paper in order to manufacture new.

It is of course also in our own interests to take responsibility for the environment. We who work at Braviken also live in the immediate surroundings.

We pick berries, hunt, bathe, paddle canoes and walk our dogs in the beautiful countryside around Bråviken Bay. We want to be healthy and feel good, so it is natural for us to want to set an example on environmental issues.

Water used in the manufacturing process is cleaned in several stages before discharge into Bråviken Bay and the Baltic Sea. The sludge is used as fuel or fertilizer and the ash is deposited in a landfill.

It is self-evident to us that we must follow all the appli-cable rules and regulations of the relevant authorities. At the same time we try hard to keep one step ahead when it comes to finding new ways of cutting emissions and reducing energy consumption to levels that are technically and economically feasible in a competitive business like the international paper industry.

With long-term responsibility for the world around us.


Here’s how we think.

Malmölandet, at 14.30 The beautiful oak woods of Malmölandet, just outside Norrköping, are a popular area for walking for both personnel from the paper mill and people living nearby.

The leafy green foliage and babbling brooks are a complete world of discovery for four-year-old Otto.

When you talk to any of us who work in Braviken you’ll probably hear the words “Holmen spirit” spoken once or twice. What this spirit really consists of is hard to describe exactly, but it’s about a special way of behaving towards each other and to the mill. We treat each other with mutual respect. We depend on each other. We take responsibility and help out when necessary. We take care of each other – and our customers. These are values that apply throughout the whole group. Our basic values include commitment, courage, customer orientation and professionalism in everything we do.

The special Holmen spirit probably has its roots in the early 17th century, when the forerunner of

the industrial enterprise that is now Holmen Paper was established on an island in the river in central Norrköping. One of the customs from this time still survives today: we shake hands with each other when we meet on the job. The handshake also has a practical function – it serves as a confirmation that responsibility is being handed over at the change of a shift.

Our employees have the right to expect participation, delegation of authority and short decision paths. We in turn gain a sense of pride and pleasure when things go well for our workforce, the machines, our paper mill – and the entire Holmen Paper Company.

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Respect and responsibility for each other.

Here’s how we think.

Working at a paper machine requires qualified skills. Most of it is supervised by computer and advanced electronics. But teamwork and good humour are at least as important for maintaining a high rate of production.


Facts about Holmen Paper BravikenHistory Started in 1977 (Holmen’s Mill in Norrköping was founded in 1609).

No. of employees 670

Production capacity 775,000 tonnes/year

Brands Holmen News, Holmen Coloured News, Holmen Plus, Holmen Guide

Consumption, Wood 1.0 Mm³fraw materials Waste paper 350 ktonnes Sulphate pulp 10 ktonnes Electricity 1.7 TWh

Machines PM51 PM52 PM53

Commissioned 1977 1985 1996

Trimmed width 8,500 mm 8,500 mm 8,900 mm

Main production Directory and Coloured and un- Coloured and un- catalogue paper coloured newsprint coloured newsprint 30–42 g/m² 40–50 g/m² 36–45 g/m² Certification ISO 9001 quality control (1996) ISO 14001 environment control (1999) SS 627750 energy management (2006)

Raw materials

Key markets

Method of delivery

Filler

De-inked pulp (DIP)

Australia

Thermo- mechanical pulp (TMP)

Sweden

Germany

UKFrance

Italy

Denmark

Spain

Other Europe

North America

BelgiumOther

Japan

Container

Rail – export

Rail – Sweden

Lorry – export

Lorry – Sweden

Vessel

Purchased sulphate pulp

Holmen Paper ABHolmen Paper is one of Europe’s leading producers of newsprint and magazine paper. Three manufacturing mills in Sweden: Braviken (at Bråviken near Norrköping), Hallsta (at Hallstavik in northern Roslagen), Wargön (at the mouth of the Göta river at the southern end of Lake Vänern). And one mill in Madrid (Spain). Holmen Paper has circa 2,700 employees and a turnover of about SEK 10 billion.

Read more at www.holmenpaper.com

Holmen ABHolmen Paper is part of the Holmen Group, a forest industry concern with about 5,000 employees and a turnover of almost SEK 20 billion.

As well as Holmen Paper, Holmen AB includes Iggesund Paper board (which manufactures paperboard for packaging and graphic purposes), Holmen Timber (which produces sawn timber products), Holmen Skog (which is responsible for timber supply and management of the company’s forests) and finally Holmen Energi (which is responsible for electrical power supply to the company’s Swedish facilities and the group’s own hydro electric power installations). Holmen AB is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange.

Read more at www.holmen.com

Braviken outside Norrköping, at 23.15

A paper mill never sleeps. Except for some occasional planned shut-downs, production goes on all day round, seven days a week, throughout the year.

Holmen Paper Braviken, SE-601 88 Norrköping, Sweden. Phone: +46 11 23 50 00. Fax: +46 11 23 66 30.

Holmen Paper AB, SE-601 88 Norrköping, Sweden. Phone: +46 11 23 50 00. Fax: +46 11 23 60 30.

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