The second floor of UPMbaptized Paso de los Toros and located at Centennial Townwill begin with the first shipments of pulp in May, according to company forecasts.
In the next few hours, the Finnish company will begin the start-up process of the plant, which required an investment of US$ 3,470 million and obtained authorization from the government last Friday to begin this phase and to operate in the free zone of the Port of Montevideo.
UPM 2, which will reach a pulp production of up to 2.1 million tons per year, placing Uruguay among the main world exporters of the product, will go on in the coming weeks adjusting all the phases of the production process.
It is also estimated the generation of 7,000 direct jobs and another 10,000 additional ones, which will mean a permanent contribution of 2% to the country’s GDP.
This will be the environmental control of UPM 2
He Ministry of Environment released the UPM 2 Baseline report, which contains indicators with which the measurements after the operation of the new pulp mill in the country will be compared, in order to determine if the quality of the environment and, particularly, of the environment has been affected. Black river.
The company assured that it presented “all the information required to obtain the permits and an extensive environmental monitoring program that covers the water and biota of the Río Negro, air, soil, noise, and socioeconomic aspects.”
The portfolio’s technical team will be responsible for evaluation and monitoring. This baseline includes information from more than two years of various environmental variables of water quality, sediments and biota —a set of flora and fauna of a certain place—, as well as parameters of air quality.
Source: Ambito
