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Eren Holdings details plans for Shotton Mill

Turkish cardboard and corrugated packaging firm Eren Holdings has outlined more details of its plans for the Shotton Mill in north Wales.

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As exclusively revealed by letsrecycle.com last year, Eren Holdings plans to convert UPM Shotton from a newsprint mill to the “second largest containerboard campus in the UK”, with a production capacity of 750,000 tonnes a year (see letsrecycle.com story).

The site will also see the development of a 210,000 tonne per annum tissue production facility and a combined heat and power (CHP) plant.

With both facilities combined, the site would have a capacity of 960,000 tonnes.

Applications

The Turkish company is now submitting two applications to Flintshire county council for the containerboard campus and a third to the Welsh Government for the CHP facility.

This is because the CHP facility considered a Development of National Significance, which means the application will be submitted to the Welsh Government for determination.

There have been signs the Welsh Government could welcome the proposals, as an initial scoping report had the involvement of Welsh ministers.

Consultation

Eren Holdings has opened a public consultation on the proposals ahead of its bid to the Welsh Government.

Explaining its proposals for the CHP facility on its website, Eren Holding says: “Although we are retaining the existing renewable energy facility and other existing energy generation, the expanded mill will require up to 60MW of electricity as well as large volumes of heat for the paper making process.

“A new CHP facility will supply highly efficient low carbon energy to the mill and make Shotton Mill self-sufficient in energy supply.”

Flintshire

Two applications covering the redevelopment and expansion of the paper mill and the necessary piling works will be submitted to Flintshire council.

Eren Holdings said the proposals will deliver a 750,000 tonnes per year capacity containerboard machine to recycle all waste paper generated in Wales.

The proposals also include new warehouse and dispatch facilities, a 110,000 tonne per year corrugated box manufacture plant, and a new anaerobic effluent treatment plant with biogas capture technology.

On its website, Eren Holdings said: “By maintaining operation of key site infrastructure and incorporating state-of-the art technology, we will convert production at the site to containerboard and tissue manufacturing.

“We seek to expand and repurpose the current site, but will keep certain aspects of the current mill, including the renewable energy generation and material recovery recycling facility.”

The company added that the containerboard facility will use 100% recycled paper and card to manufacture brown paper. This will then be passed through a corrugation machine to ‘crinkle up’ the paper and strengthen it to make cardboard.

The tissue facility will use a combination of recycled and virgin pulp to produce tissue products for the UK market. The tissue facility will supply jumbo rolls for further converting at other facilities in the UK, as well as manufacturing the final product on site.

Useful links

Erin Holding Flintshire consultation
Erin Holding Welsh Government consultation

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