In early October Adven’s head office, which is based in Vantaa, Finland, will move into brand new, carbon-neutral premises in terms of energy consumption. More space is needed because the company's headcount has risen alongside net sales growth.

Adven is delivering an entirely new boiler plant to Valio’s Seinäjoki plant, bringing an additional four megawatts of power. The new bio boiler plant will reduce the plant’s use of oil and peat, which in turn will cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 15,000 tonnes a year.

Paper and board mill Kotkamills will adopt a closed-cycle solution to boost chemical recovery. The chemical oxygen demand of the wastewater treatment plant will fall by around 20 per cent and the carbon dioxide emissions will decline by approximately 3,500 tonnes.

Vanajanlinna is a popular hotel, event venue and golf resort in the south of Finland. Since last year, its buildings have been heated and cooled using geoenergy instead of natural gas. Carbon footprint of heating is approaching zero.

At Adven, we have significantly reduced our carbon dioxide emissions – despite the dramatic growth in the volume of energy we produce. Our systematic, long-term approach to reducing emissions includes, among other things, switching to renewable energy sources and improving the efficiency of our plants.

Fuelwood, in cooperation with Adven, is building a modular pellet plant in Söderhamn in Sweden. The plant is considerably more compact and more flexible compared to traditional pellet production sites.

Adven is originally a Finnish energy company established in the 1980s. In 2014, Adven entered the Swedish market. Back then, we were a small company with four employees offering geoenergy solutions.

Mirka, a world leader in surface finishing products, will recycle heat and water more efficiently at its Jepua production plant in Finland’s Northern Ostrobothnia by early 2020. Water recovery saves about 40 thousand cubic meters of water each year.

Terrafame and Adven have agreed to implement a new energy plant based on renewable energy for the new Terrafame’s battery chemicals plant in Sotkamo. At the same time, the energy co-operation between the two companies will deepen further.

There are several reasons as to why industrial companies today choose to improve their energy and water management. One of the driving factors is new requirements aiming to reduce the harm caused by industries on the environment and the climate. These guidelines are gathered under the name BAT (Best Available Techniques) which means more uniform requirements on emissions from industries within the EU.