Alliance for Environmental Technology
A Responsible Care� Supporting Association

The Alliance for Environmental Technology (AET) is an international association of chemical manufacturers dedicated to improving the environmental performance of the pulp and paper industry. AET was created to establish a clearing house of educational and technical resources relating to Chlorine Dioxide and it's use in papermaking.

As a priority issue, AET supports the use of chlorine dioxide bleaching (also known as Elemental Chlorine-Free or ECF), a pollution prevention technology recognized by the International Joint Commission. It is a remarkable bleaching agent that eliminates persistent, bioaccumulative toxic substances in mill waste-water. Chlorine dioxide is also an essential component for producing the highest quality pulp and paper products.

What's New

• "The Minimum Impact Mill: State of the Art Manufacturing" - a presentation to the Metafore Forest Leadership Forum, April 2006. The presentation describes the evolving consensus toward the vision of the Minimum Impact Mill, profiles the StoraEnso/Aracruz Veracell mill as an example of State of the Art Manufacturing and documents industry's environmental progress over the last 30 years.

• For the 15th year in a row, Elemental Chlorine-Free (ECF) Pulp increased its share of the world's bleached chemical pulp market. The greater than 85% market share ECF pulp captured in 2005 confirms ECF as the best available bleaching technology for chemical pulps. The growth for ECF is documented in "Trends in World Bleached Pulp Production: 1990 - 2005," a report released today by the Alliance for Environmental Technology (AET). Click here to view the release.