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HÅNDVÆRK is printed on Munken, which is made by Arctic Paper Munkedals

HÅNDVÆRK is printed on Munken, which is made by Arctic Paper Munkedals, a paper factory on the banks of the Örekil River in the town of Munkedal, 100 km north of Gothenburg, Sweden. The town developed around the paper mill, like many other Swedish towns that formed around an industrial manufacturing company.

December 2024

 

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Artic Paper Munkedals is a European leader in sustainable paper manufacturing. The company is both FSC- and Cradle to Cradle-certified and has one of the lowest levels of water consumption per ton of paper. The water comes from the river and is cleansed by microorganisms before it is discharged. The microorganisms die in the process and turn to slag, which is used as organic fertilizer. After this cleansing process, the water is clean enough to drink: visitors to the factory are routinely offered a glass of wastewater.

Cradle to Cradle certified® is an internationally acknowledged, third-party verified product standard related to the circular economy. It is designed as an efficient tool for handling the green transition, developing new products and business models and building helpful partnerships throughout the value chain.

Paper is made from excess wood from furniture production, small trees that are felled when production forests are thinned and branches and twigs that are removed from large felled trees before they are cut up for timber.

 

Wood from deciduous trees – so-called hardwood – has short, dense fibres.

Wood from conifers – softwood – has long, ductile fibres.

 

Paper pulp may contain many different types of fibres, depending on the desired qualities. Arctic Paper Munkedals in Sweden mainly uses pulp made from Scandinavian wood.

To make paper, the wood fibres are first put through a giant shredder.

The fine particles are then boiled to produce paper pulp.

Wood fibres are held together by a substance called lignin, which makes paper turn yellow over time.

To make the paper acid-free and age-resistant (like Munken), the lignin is removed through boiling.

The resulting paper is called woodfree paper.

Arctic Paper makes both woodfree paper and wood-containing book paper

 

Munken paper is finished with organic pea, maize or potato starch.

 

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HÅNDVÆRK trykkes på Munken, som kommer fra Arctic Paper Munkedals i Sverige – en papirfabrik, som ligger i byen Munkedal 100 km nord for Göteborg, ved Örekilselven.
En by, der oprindelig blev bygget op omkring papirmøllen, på samme måde som mange andre svenske byer er bygget op omkring en industriel produktionsvirksomhed.

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Arctic Paper Munkedal er en af Europas førende, når det gælder bæredygtig produktion af papir.
Virksomheden er både FSC- og Cradle to Cradle-certificeret og har et af verdens laveste vandforbrug pr. ton papir, de producerer. Det vand, som indgår i processen, kommer fra elven og renses af mikroorganismer, inden det ledes ud igen. Mikroorganismerne dør i processen og bliver til slagger, der ender som økologisk gødning. Vandet er efter rensningen så rent, at det kan drikkes. Besøgende på fabrikken bliver altid budt på et glas spildevand.

Cradle to Cradle certified® (eller på dansk ‘vugge til vugge’) er en internationalt anerkendt, tredjepartsverificeret produktcertificering målrettet den cirkulære økonomi. Ordningen er designet som et effektivt værktøj til at handle på den grønne omstilling, udvikle nye produkter og forretningsmodeller og skabe nyttige samarbejder i hele værdikæden.

Papir fremstilles af spildtræ fra møbelproduktion, små træer, som tyndes ud i produktionsskovene, og grene og kviste, som saves fra store fældede træer, inden de saves op til tømmer.

Løvtræ giver korte, tætte fibre.

Nåletræer giver lange, seje fibre.

 

Der kan være mange forskellige fibertyper i en pulp, afhængig af hvilke egenskaber man ønsker. Arctic Paper Munkedal i Sverige anvender primært pulp fremstillet af skandinavisk træ.

 

Når man fremstiller papir, starter man med at findele træfibrene på et gigantisk rivejern.

De små stykker koger man til papirmasse kaldet pulp.

Træets fibre er klistret sammen af et stof, som hedder lignin. Lignin gulner papiret.

Skal papiret være aldersbestandigt og syrefrit (som Munken) bliver ligninen kogt ud.

Papiret kaldes derefter træfrit papir!

Arctic Paper fremstiller både træfrit papir og såkaldt træholdigt bogpapir.

 

Munken er efterbehandlet med økologisk ærte-, majs- eller kartoffelmel.

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