The investment will increase Shotton's heat self-sufficiency by up to 95% and power by up to 25%, while at the same time reducing its annual carbon dioxide emissions by 30,000 tonnes.
The boiler, which is expected to come on line by the end of November 2006, will burn all of the sludge produced by the mill's recovered paper recycling process, once it is combined with bio-mass fuels.
UPM's investment in the North Wales paper mill has been backed to the tune of 10.6m by a Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) grant.
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