Tag: Stora Enso

• Tuesday, September 9th 2014 - 04:46 UTC

  Uruguay opens second pulp mill with annual production capacity of 1.45 million tons

  

  Uruguay officially inaugurated on Monday a second pulp mill, Montes del Plata, on the River Plate, belonging to Chile's Arauco and Swedish-Finnish Stora Enso, which is considered the largest single investment in the country and will have an annual production of 1.3 million tons.

• Friday, May 2nd 2014 - 10:00 UTC

  Uruguay confirmed a third pulp mill with construction beginning in 2017

  

  Uruguay has confirmed a third pulp mill to be built to the north east of the country in Cerro Largo, while the second one, Montes del Plata on the River Plate and recently finished is to be formally inaugurated sometime between May 15 and 25, although production will be delayed for a few months since the second wharf is unfinished and the effluents plant non commissioned.

• Wednesday, November 20th 2013 - 04:55 UTC

  Uruguay confirms third pulp mill project, but to the east of the country close to Brazil

  

  Finland's UPM/Botnia plant, which is an ongoing motive of dispute with Argentina is planning a second pulp mill but to the east of Uruguay, announced Vice-president Danilo Astori, confirming a previous statement from the First Lady and Senator Lucia Topolansky.

• Friday, September 30th 2011 - 06:13 UTC

  Chilean/Swedish group ensure 1.35billion dollars to finance pulp plant in Uruguay

  

  The Chilean group Arauco, an affiliate of the pulp and paper Copec Enterprises announced on Thursday that together with its European partner they had subscribed 1.354 billion dollars in loans for the construction of a pulp plant in Uruguay.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 22:02 UTC

  Uruguay’s second pulp project receives 200 million loan from IDB

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a 200 million dollars loan for Uruguay’s second major pulp mill investment, Celulosa y Energía Punta Pereira S.A. and Zona Franca Punta Pereira S.A., belonging to the Montes del Plata Group.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 22:37 UTC

  Chile’s pulp giant Arauco trebles profits in first quarter of 2011

  

  Chile’s Arauco the forestry and pulp unit belonging to the Copec group, trebled profits in the first quarter boosted by higher international prices and sale volumes particularly pulp, according to the company’s latest financial report.

• Friday, May 6th 2011 - 06:29 UTC

  FDI in Uruguay has soared in last five years and reached 1.6 billion USD in 2010

  

  Foreign direct investment, FDI, in Uruguay during 2010 reached 1.627 billion US dollars which represents a 29% increase over 2009 and puts the country among the top six FDI recipients in South America and eighth in the region, according to the latest report from the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC.