As part of the Environmental Efficiency Improvement Program (EEIP) approved by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade in February 2021, Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill JSC is implementing eight out of more than 20 environmental protection measures this year.
Among them: the installation of new water-saving equipment in the turbine shop of TPP-1, the modernization of workshops, including TPP-3 for pulp production.
As a result of these measures, the Mill is planning to reduce the specific volume of wastewater by 11% or 14 m³ per a ton of products.
The EEIP was developed to ensure the improvement of the environmental friendliness of APPM's production and to achieve an environmental impact level complying with the best available technologies for all established technological indicators.
The cost of financing the EEIP is 18.2 billion rubles.
The main concept of the Program is to implement technological solutions and to carry out technical re-equipment of production with the purpose to reduce the use of water resources, to reuse them, as well as to reduce wastewater discharges into the water reservoir as much as possible.
Among the EEIP measures is the main status project of APPM - gasification of the Mill, the main goal of which is to change the fuel balance of the company increasing in the share of using less carbon-intensive natural gas instead of coal used, to reduce the discharge of wastewater into the reservoir as a result of shutting down the operation of the ash and slag dump, and thereby to improve ecological situation. It is planned to complete this project in 2005. The costs will amount to 4.2 billion rubles.
Due to the implementation of the EEIP by 2023 APPM, among other things, plans to complete the works aimed to reduce emissions of sulfur-containing compounds into the atmosphere, which cause the greatest concern to residents of the nearest settlements of the Arkhangelsk region.
By 2030, the Mill plans to reduce the specific discharge of pollutants into the Northern Dvina River, measured in characteristic integral indicators, by 45% - 55%.
