Voith’s Papermaking for Life

Voith Group includes Voith Paper, which is well known in the banknote paper making world as the manufacturer of paper machines. In its 2022 Sustainability Report it gives details of its ‘Papermaking for Life’ programme designed to contribute to more sustainable paper production.

The programme has the target by 2030 to improve its customers’ carbon footprint:

• 100% CO2-neutral paper production thanks to energy-optimised products, digital solutions, disruptive concepts and the efficient use of renewable energies

• 90% freshwater savings thanks to a completely new papermaking process

• 90% recycling rate thanks to the development of new fibre streams.

Voith offers solutions across water, energy, fibre and circular economy and digitisation. It has a full innovation programme, of which one area is using renewable energies as efficiently as possible and identifying suitable storage options.