Piteå company enters ten-year electricity deal with Vattenfall

Vattenfall has concluded a ten-year deal about electricity deliveries to Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner Piteå AB.

The deal includes electricity balance power and electricity deliveries at spot price during three years. It also includes acquisition of electricity certificates.

In total, the deal comprises electricity deliveries of around one terawatt hour (one billion kilowatt hours) during a ten-year period.

“We are very proud that Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner Piteå AB has chosen Vattenfall as supplier of electricity; that is a further proof of Vattenfall’s good relations to the production industry,” says Hans von Uthmann, Senior Vice President of Vattenfall and Head of Vattenfall Nordic.

Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner Piteå is Europe’s biggest kraftliner producer, with an annual output of some 700 000 tonnes. Kraftliner is a base paper made from fresh fibres and is used for the manufacture of high quality corrugated packaging. Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner Piteå is a part of the Smurfit Kappa Group.


For further information, please contact:
Hans von Uthmann, Senior Vice President of Vattenfall and Head of Vattenfall Nordic,
through press secretary Anna Lihr, telephone +46 70 893 33 52.
Tore Persson, CEO Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner Piteå AB, telephone +46 911 971 91.

From Vattenfall's Press Office, telephone: +46 (0)8-739 50 10.