Insights

With a clear and ambitious milestone target for 2030, Kemira has now joined the growing ranks of global companies ultimately aiming for carbon neutrality and supporting the Paris Agreement. We’ve seen impressive commitments from many of our customers and recognize that we also need to play our part in helping to achieve these.

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?

How will food consumption and food packaging look like in 2030? Our future scenario survey provides four plausible alternatives for the future and paints pictures of consumer attitudes and behavior, packaging trends, recycling, and regulation in ten years’ time.

Sludge dewatering can be a tricky operation due to varying sludge composition. A significant share of the operational costs of municipal wastewater treatment but also some industries is in sludge disposal. An investment into improved sludge treatment can bring significant cost-efficiencies.

It is hard to overstate the importance of fresh water. Everything we drink and eat – meat or vegetable – requires fresh water. And though many do not realize it, every source of energy we have uses fresh water at some stage of the process.

What are the ingredients of satisfaction and loyalty within the customers of the chemical sector? What matters to our customers and what are the pain points to be fixed? We have investigated this over several years.

What if you could see hours ahead into the future, predict the process conditions that have an effect on the quality of the manufactured paper and board, and take preventative actions at your mill before problems occur? Utilizing predictive analytics and adopting data-driven chemistry control, this can be done already today.

The majority of existing wastewater treatment infrastructure was designed and commissioned decades ago. Today, municipalities are facing increasing demands on capacity with urbanization. When funds for new investments are tight, it pays back to carefully study the impact of different treatment process setups on total lifecycle costs.