NEWS

(06/25/2013 / sha)

Pöyry: Engineering services assignment for Lwarcel Celulose pulp mill project, Brazil

Pöyry has been awarded an assignment by Lwarcel Celulose, a Lwart Group company, for basic engineering and logistics studies for the expansion of its pulp mill at Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo.

 
 

As part of the expansion, Lwarcel intends to build a new production line at the same location of the current mill. The line will bring an additional production capacity of up to 750,000 t/y; currently, the annual production is 250,000 t of short fibre pulp from eucalyptus - raw material used in the production of several types of paper in Brazil and abroad. Lwarcel had earlier engaged Pöyry's services in the conceptual and pre-feasibility analysis for the project.

In addition to the new production line, the project also predicts the increase of the company's planting area, going from 38,000 to 90,000 acres of planted eucalyptus forests. This expansion will generate economic and social development, as well as contributing to the preservation of native and spring areas.