DS Smith extends partnership with GE to target emissions with new gas turbine technology

DS Smith, a leading sustainable packaging company, and GE Gas Power, a world leader in natural gas power technology, announce an extension of their successful partnership at the Lucca Paper Mill in Italy. The new aeroderivative gas turbine is the latest configuration of GE’s dry low emissions technology offering higher output and increased efficiency, ultimately enabling the paper mill to reduce emissions.

Producing 420,000 tonnes of recycled paper annually, the DS Smith mill in Lucca is one of the largest in DS Smith’s global network. The new technology being deployed will result in a 2% increase in efficiency at the mill, which will deliver a substantial reduction of gas consumption and CO2 emissions. Over a year this is estimated to be almost 2 million standard cubic meters of natural gas and up to 4,000 tonnes of carbon. This is the equivalent of removing nearly 900 passenger vehicles* from the roads each year.