Save up to €9 per ton on fibers
Novonesis FiberCare® gives your fiber greater bonding and strengthening potential. That allows significant savings on energy, fibers and chemicals. Learn how our technical specialists can help you identify the savings you need to achieve your business and sustainability targets.
How to maintain your mill's competitive edge
From supply chain issues to price increases, papermakers today face a number of challenges:
An unprecedented increase in energy prices
Volatile fiber prices
Supply chain issues challenging steady flow of feedstock
These market dynamics are putting pressure on your mill’s margins. But what if you could cut costs and improve productivity – all while improving sustainability
Download the Benefit Overview below to see how Novonesis Fiber Care® can help tackling these challenges.
Cut cost by replacing your mill’s most expensive fibers
FiberCare® is a biological solution that lets you cut the cost of high-priced fibers through fiber substitution. Combined with our expertise in enzyme technology, the result is a more cost-effective production process, proofed for today's challenges as well as for the future.
FiberCare® also allows you to save in material costs in other ways – for example, through increasing the total filler content of your paper or reducing basis weight with the same final strength properties.
More filler, less fiber
Fiber savings can also be achieved by replacing fibers with filler, as illustrated in this example.
- Paper production with 20% filler
- A substitution target of 1% fiber with filler
- Assumed fiber and filler price delta 600 €/ton
- Total value created: 6 €/ton in production savings.
Light-weighting
With light-weighting, you reduce the overall fiber in your final products, while maintaining end-product specifications, as illustrated here.
- 80 gsm paper with 20% filler
- A target of basis-weight reduction of 1 gsm
- Assumed furnish price 750 €/ton
- Total value created: 9 €/ton in production savings.
Fiber substitution
By substituting expensive fibers with more affordable ones without compromising quality, as illustrated here.
- Furnish of 20/80 bleached softwood pulp / bleached hardwood pulp with 20% filler
- A substitution target of 5% hardwood fiber
- Assumed pulp price delta: 100 €/ton
- Total value created: €4 /ton in production savings.
Want to know more about our solutions?
Novonesis FiberCare® can upgrade your fibers and make a wide range of products in a sustainable way.
The key ingredient in FiberCare® is a unique cellulase enzyme that modifies the fiber surface in a controlled way that increases fiber-to-fiber bonding to improve mechanical refining and the strengthening potential of the pulp.
Enhance fiber's response to refining and reduce the energy needed to meet strength specifications in production output.
See how FiberCare® led to significant strength gains and energy savings in a Northern European paper mill.
Contact our team of experts to discuss the potential for optimization of pulp and paper production
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