A minimal environmental impact will always be given a high priority at Billerud. Read more about our work to reduce the emissions from transports.
On track
Transport has a big impact on the environment. Billerud works proactively to reduce this impact by prioritising rail transport. Every day raw materials are transported into the mills and finished products are carried out to customers all over the world. This transport accounts for a relatively large portion of the company’s overall emissions to air. Billerud works systematically to ensure that environment and quality requirements are followed by transport companies. Billerud has freight agreements whereby transport companies are committed to reporting which vehicles are used for loading at the mills and which environmental classification they have.
Billerud works proactively to identify the transport solution that provides the best quality, shortest and most reliable route and most minimal environmental impact. The amount of road-based transport has been reduced and today around 70 % of transport from the mills is by rail.
Part-owner of transport company
Together with four other forest companies, Billerud has formed a transport company, Scandfibre Logistics, which manages rail transport exclusively and currently handles around 2 million tonnes of products per year. The scale of the business generates cost-efficiency that would be almost impossible for the owners to achieve by themselves. Most of the trains run from mills in Sweden to customers in continental Europe.