Start up problems in Bäckhammar mill
The Nordic Paper mill in Bäckhammar has had a maintenance stop. However, at the scheduled start-up, problems occurred.A floor drain for clean water was damaged and stopped in its outflow, which resulted in large amounts of fresh water entering to the factory system. During its flow, the water, among other things, picked up large amounts of soap, which then flowed to the internal treatment plant. As the soap is hard to separate from water, it went on to the creek Visman.The consequence of this is low levels of oxygen in the water, as well as heavily discolored water. Emergency actions were