Today, Owens Corning, owner of Paroc AB, celebrated breaking ground on its new sustainability investment at the Paroc Hällekis plant in Sweden. The plant is converting from coke-fired furnaces to electric melting which is estimated to reduce the plant’s scope 1 and 2 emissions by about 80 percent. The project plan is scheduled for a start-up of the electric melting furnace in 2027.
The project includes a new 7,500-square-metre facility consisting of two buildings. One building will house the new electrified furnace and the other will be used for raw materials handling and filtration processes.
The Hällekis plant manufactures stone wool insulation for use in building insulation and technical insulation applications. When the project is finalized, the investment will reduce the embodied carbon from products produced in Hällekis. The investment will enable employees at the Hällekis plant to develop their skills in operating a state-of-the-art electric melting furnace and working with a new, and more energy-efficient melting process with lower greenhouse gas emissions.