Reducing fresh water usage at our Hadera paper mill in Israel
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Responding to recent drought conditions in Isreal, Mondi Hadera set itself an ambitious target – to achieve ‘zero liquid discharges’ by creating a completely closed water cycle at the mill.
Mondi hadera Paper, a joint venture between Hadera Paper and Mondi Group, operates four paper machines, producing a combined total of 330,000 tons of white, brown and tissue papers a year. Its water consumption in 2009 was 2.1 m m3, with a waste water flow of 1.6m m3. |
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In 2008, following several years of research, Hadera installed a pilot softening plant, which has made it possible to reuse around 300,000 m3 water to date. The pilot plant uses an innovative cleaning process involving small amounts of lime and sand particles to remove mineral salts and phosphorous from used water. By utilization of this modern purification technique water quality has been significantly improved and specific fresh water consumption reduced by 60%.
With the installation of a new fluting paper machine in 2010 the purification capacity will be more than doubled. A pilot plant set up to test the process that will be used, has already operated successfully for 6 months.
Last change: 25/03/2010