The paper company delivered 100 modules to the Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning (MVOT) and the Municipality of Cerro Largo.
With the aim of building family houses in the town of arevaloin the Department of hill lake, the Finnish company, dedicated to the manufacture of cellulose pulp, paper and wood, delivered housing solutions.
The company, which had some problems when starting up the second plant: UPM Paso de los Toros, was part of the event. Also present were the minister, Irene Moreirathe mayor of Cerro Largo, Jose Yurramendithe mayor of Arévalo, Eduardo Lucas, the director of forestry operations of UPM, Álvaro Fitipaldo, the manager of relations with the community Magdalena Ibáñez, among others.
The 100 modules delivered will be converted into one to two bedroom family homes with an approximate size of 50 square meters. The houses will have spacious interior spaces, a façade covered with galvanized sheet metal, firewalls, a cement and polyurethane floor projected underneath, a new econopanel roof, and connections to the sanitation and drinking water network.
UPM’s director of forestry operations highlighted the growth of forestry operations of the company in the country, especially in that where “the generation of new permanent and quality jobs is promoted” and he stressed that it has the objective of promoting “the settlement of people with their families in their community with the contribution of these housing solutions.
The Minister of Housing and Territorial Planning, Irene Moreira, highlighted, for her part, highlighted the complementarity and transversal work between the local, national and UPM government to provide housing and contribute to the establishment of the town of Arévalo.
While the departmental mayor of Cerro Largo, José Yurramendi, remarked that Arévalo is a town with great productive growth and that “this is a great milestone that also contributes to the social growth since it favors the settlement of workers and their families”.
Source: Ambito
