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Progroup, manufacturer of corrugated base paper and corrugated board formats, has received the PPI Award in the „Sustainability Leadership Award 2023“ category. The paper industry award recognises Progroup's high-tech sites, which the company has built up in accordance with the rules of an efficient circular economy and a stringent „zero waste“ principle.
The Pulp & Paper International Awards (PPI Awards), organised by the information service „Fastmarkets Forest Products“, have been presented for the 14th time. With these awards, the information service honours companies, mills and individuals in the pulp and paper industry who have made outstanding achievements. The following are honoured each year outstanding leadership qualities, vision, realised innovations and strategic merits. This year's sustainability award went to Progroup.
„We have always pursued a consistent sustainability strategy. At all our sites, we are constantly working on making our production even more efficient and environmentally friendly. As a family-owned company, we act with the environment in mind and are committed to future generations - this is what drives us.“
Maximilian Heindl, Chairman of the Management Board of Progroup
How the circular economy succeeds in practice
One example of how this is already being achieved in practice can be seen in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany, where Progroup produces particularly lightweight yet high-performance paper - based exclusively on recycled paper. Thanks to innovative high-tech machines, production is extremely economical and environmentally friendly. The clean energy for this is supplied by the company's own waste-to-energy power plant. By thermally utilising so-called rejects - i.e. residual materials from paper production and industry - it supplies the entire paper machine there with hot water vapour. The power plant also produces electricity, significantly reducing Progroup's use of fossil fuels.
The company uses the environmentally friendly papers to produce The next step is to produce corrugated board formats in one of its twelve plants - The production process is also extremely efficient and conserves resources, for example in Stryków, Poland. At the beginning of the year, the ultra-modern Sheet feeder PW14 went into operation. It scores with perfectly optimised processes and a high degree of networking.
After use paper or corrugated board can be recycled and returned to the material cycle. „We have thus succeeded in implementing a perfect zero-waste principle, which we are gradually expanding,“ says Peter Resvanis, Head of the Paper Growth Projects Competence Centre, who accepted the award on behalf of Progroup.
Source: Progroup
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