The COP 30 conference was the venue for the Net-Zero Industries Mission to announce the National Winners of their 2025 Net-Zero Industries Awards.
The UK winner of the ‘outstanding project’ category was Flue2Chem – with Holmen Iggesund Workington Board Mill, UPM Caledonian Mill, and the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) being three of the project partners.
The recently concluded Flue2Chem project was a multi-sector project aiming to capture and transform industrial flue gases into chemicals to use as feedstock to manufacture more sustainable household cleaning products. The project delivered a leap in understanding of the technological challenges required to turn this new value chain into reality.
Since the conclusion of the initial project, both Holmen and UPM have continued to explore the practicality of carbon capture from their flue streams and how captured carbon dioxide can be best used.
Flue2Chem was also honoured at the Paper Industry Gold Awards in June 2025, winning the Sustainable Innovation & Net Zero Award. This category recognised innovative projects that are pioneering in the field and that will benefit the future of the industry by making the productionprocess more efficient, sustainable and lower-carbon, while minimising wider environmental impact.
