Insights

Canada’s oil sands are the largest deposit of crude oil on the planet and a tremendously valuable resource. But there’s a catch: the unavoidable environmental challenges of tailings management, water reuse and land reclamation. Chemistry plays a crucial role in helping the oil sands companies address these issues.

Download a sneak preview to one of the chapters of our 2020 Water Handbook. This chapter discusses the history and future of smart process management in water treatment, also known as Advanced Water Treatment.

To help water treatment plant operators do their job, even in turbulent times, is of crucial importance. This also means that sufficient treatment chemistries, logistics and labor must be available.

As part of our ambitious climate target for 2030, Kemira has signed a 10-year renewable power purchase agreement for 5MW (43,8 GWh per annum) baseload electricity. This takes us a significant step forward in our ambition to be climate neutral by 2045.

SWISS KRONO, a manufacturer of wood-based materials, wanted to safeguard the health and safety of its employees by disinfecting the wastewater generated at their largest production plant. Read how we helped them with the Kemira KemConnect solution.

This summer, Aranda, a research vessel of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) operating in the Baltic Sea, will start the experimental use of a fuel cell system fueled by excess hydrogen from Kemira’s Äetsä plant in a pilot project coordinated by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

The food industry and the food packaging value chain are rapidly changing, challenged by the need to be more sustainable and resource-efficient and to meet the demands of urban consumers. What does the future of food and food packaging look like?