Mondi Syktyvkarsky LPK, (Mondi Syktyvkar Forestry Company)
Mondi Syktyvkaris one of the largest producers of pulp and paper products in Russia. It was established in 1993 and has been a private company since May 1996.
The authorised capital belongs to the Austrian international group Neusiedler AG, which is a 100% subsidiary of Mondi Europe, a structural component of the transnational corporation Anglo-American.
The plant has a cardboard mill and three papermaking machines. It comprises its own wood preparation manufacture, a pulp mill generating about 550,000 tonnes of pulp per year, as well as a complex of treatment facilities. The plant's own CHP plant covers its entire electrical load and transfers excess power to the Komienergo system.
Mondi Syktyvkar owns seven of the Komi Republic's timber companies, which provide the plant with wood raw materials. The total volume of its own timber is about 2.5 million cubic metres per year.
The plant supplies more than 40% of the market for office and offset paper in Russia and the CIS, produces newsprint, cardboard for flat layers of corrugated top liner and kraft liner cardboard.
The plant employs 4,500 people full time and approximately the same number part time.
Mondi Syktyvkaris the backbone of the timber industry in the Komi Republic. It accounts for more than 60% of industrial production and more than 40% of tax revenues; with its subsidiary logging companies the figures are more than 65% and more than 55%, respectively.
Since 2008, Mondi Syktyvkar has been implementing the "STEP" investment project – "Development and Modernisation of the Processing Infrastructure of Mondi Syktyvkar", the largest investment in Russia's pulp and paper industry in the last 30 years.
The essence of the project is the development and reconstruction of companies in order to:
• increase the capacity of the pulp mill with the goal of 100% supply of the plant's own fibre reconstructed paper products
• improve pulp quality
• improve primary production in the use of raw materials, energy and chemicals
• reduce the negative impact on the environment: emission of pollutants into the atmosphere, sewage dumping into the river Vychegda and the impact on the environment from non-utilisable industrial wastes
• develop transport and forestry infrastructure
• improve working conditions and safety standards for the company's employees
• attracting additional investments in the region's logging companies
The project envisions:
• upgrading flows of softwood and hardwood craft pulp
• modernisation of evaporation stations No. 1 and No. 3, as well as the construction of a new evaporation plant
• installation of a new recovery boiler to replace three old ones
• upgrade the causticising plant and regeneration of lime with the installation of a new lime-regeneration furnace
• installation of systems for collection, transportation and disposal of highly thermal and dilute odorous gases
• optimisation of process streams and the modernisation of paper and cardboard machines
• increased electricity sales
• production of market pulp
• increased paper and paperboard production
• construction of 615 km of forest roads.
Total investment – 19,858,400,000 roubles.
Construction work began in May 2008. The company installed new, one-of-a-kind equipment made specifically for the STEP project: barking drums, recovery boiler, turbine generator, evaporation plant, lime-regenerating oven, etc.
In April 2009, a shop and exchange for processing and storage of raw materials became operational. In 2009, the evaporation plant, lime-regenerating furnace and a causticising plant were commissioned.
The new recovery boiler, with a capacity of 3,560 tonnes per day, is designed to burn all the odorous gases collected from the production, as well as by-products such as soap, methanol and turpentine. Application of the latest blast air system will almost completely eliminate emissions of sulphur dioxide and odorous gases into the atmosphere. Dust emissions into the atmosphere will be minimised through the use of electrostatic precipitators.
As a result of the STEP project, the following figures will be achieved:
1. Increase in processing of raw timber by 1 million cubic metres per year.
2. Increase in annual production of pulp from 700,000 to 900,000 tonnes, including hardwood pulp – 400,000 tonnes, coniferous pulp – 300 tonnes.
3. Increase in production of paper products from 795,000 to 940,000 tonnes per year.
4. Increase in electricity production by 120 MW.
5. Reduction in water intake from the river Vychegda from 339,000 cubic metres per day to 206,000 cubic metres per day.
6. Reduction in emissions of sulphur compounds by 90%.
