LWC made of high-quality raw materials
Lightweight coated paper (LWC) is essentially a thin paper made from ground spruce pulpwood, reinforced with a small proportion of kraft pulp to add strength. The resulting paper is then covered with coating in which the most important constituent is fine-grained clay.
SCA has been producing LWC paper at Ortviken paper mill since the early 1990s. Ortviken has now established itself in the topmost quality segment among LWC producers. The success is founded on SCA’s combined strengths. The company’s large forest holdings, providing access to top-quality spruce raw material and control over the flow of raw materials, enabled it to base its paper production on fresh spruce pulpwood.
Fresh spruce
The close cooperation with the Östrand pulp mill has made it possible to design a reinforcing pulp with exactly the right properties, thereby keeping the proportion of kraft pulp at a low level. This is advantageous both for the optical properties of the paper and for production costs. SCAs extensive research and development resources have been a key platform for this success.
Strong environmental profile
LWC and all of our other publication paper products are FSC-certified and produced from pulp that is bleached without the use of any chlorine chemicals (TCF). Energy production is based, to a large degree, upon biofuels which enables us to have low emissions of fossil carbon dioxides.
