Harjavalta, Finland
Depending on the activities
Type of solution:
- Management Actions
- Energy infrastructures and installations
Solution category:
- Joint waste management and disposal
- Exploitation of one plant
- Joint investment in energy efficiency
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Harjavalta, Finland
Depending on the activities
This industrial park has been developing eco-efficiency activities for more than 60 years. It is located in Harjavalta, a town with a prominent mining sector.
The main tenants are copper and nickel flash smelters (Boliden), a nickel chemical producer (Norilsk Nickel), an energy producer (Porin Lämpövoima), a hydrogen plant (AGA), a sulphuric acid plant (YARA) and the town of Harjavalta.
In addition to these major actors that established symbiotic exchanges (energy cascading and material flows) the site also incorporates the services of more than 100 subcontractors. Many waste,and by-products outputs are used as resources: heavy metals, sulphur, sulphuric acid, slag, wastewater, etc.
3 - the solution is identified as high strategic importance.
3 - the solution is successfully implemented, and it has achieved significant environmental and economic benefits.
3 - the solution has been achieved through a joint approach of more than 5 organisations.
1 - the solution is replicable and/or scalable, but only limitedly so (e.g. depends on boundary conditions).
This park is an example of different companies exchanging materials and energy following various combination of flows.
Eco-Innovera (2014), "International survey on eco-innovation parks: Learning from experiences on the spatial dimension of eco-innovation"