Pulp Mill Energy Audit Pays Off, Paper360º July/August 2019

For Verso Corp., sustainability and efficiency are literally at the center of things: the company’s six core values include “Manufacturing Efficiency” at #3 and “Citizenship and Stewardship” at #4. With reduced energy use at the nexus of those core values, it seems natural that identifying opportunities to do so was an attractive prospect for Verso leaders. In 2016, an energy audit provided the information the company needed to move forward.

Paper360° spoke with Verso’s Steve Brooks, director, corporate energy, as part of a 2018 feature on energy use (see “Accessing Innovation: Partnering for Energy Projects” in the July/August 2018 issue of Paper360°). “Last year we significantly changed the energy footprint of our pulp mill through a reconfiguration that resulted in the shutdown of obsolete equipment, providing both maintenance and energy cost savings,” Brooks said then. “This year, we are moving forward with a list of energy projects that will save thousands of pounds of steam every hour.” This update article takes a deeper dive into the energy audit process that made that possible.

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