São Paulo, March 14, 2022 – Replacing fuel oil with 100% clean and renewable source of energy: biomass gasification. This is the latest sustainability and innovation measure taken by Klabin with the Puma II Project, the expansion of its industrial unit at Ortigueira, Paraná. With the startup of this project, the company will cease consuming 21,500 tons per year of BPF oil, derived from petroleum to supply one of its lime kilns. With this, the share of renewable energy in the company’s energy matrix will increase to over 90%, while greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the company’s operations will decrease by 67,000 tons of CO2 equivalent per year. 
The company is thus increasingly aligned with the UN 2030 Agenda through Klabin’s Sustainable Development Goals (KSDG). The commitments undertaken by Klabin include the reduction of the share of fossil fuels to ensure an energy matrix with at least 92% renewable sources by 2030. We also have a science-based target to reduce specific GHG emissions (scope 1 and 2) by 25% per ton of pulp, paperboard and packaging by 2025, and by 49% by 2035, with the baseline year of 2019.
“It is a major investment by Klabin in sustainability, replacing the burning of fossil fuel with another 100% renewable source,” said João Braga, Executive Officer - Projects and Engineering at Klabin. The gas generated in the process (called Syngas) is the result of the thermal decomposition of a mix of pine and eucalyptus woodchips, plant waste derived from harvesting the company’s planted forests and wood waste from the industrial area. Besides helping considerably to reducing GHG emissions from the production of Syngas, it also helps to reduce operating costs at the industrial unit. 

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