The plant, which is ready to begin production, expects to receive permission from DINAMA, Uruguay’s environmental regulatory agency, to start operations this week.
An executive at the Finish company Stora Enso, which built the plant in Conchillas with the Chilean company Arauco, said Tuesday that the company expects to receive DINAMA’s approval by the end of the week.
“We could start literally at any moment. We expect very probably to have permission by the end of the week from the environmental authority” said Juan Bueno, the head of the wood pulp division at Stora at a speech to an industry conference.
In April it was announced that work on the plant in Montes del Plata had been finished and that the plant undergone tests and would be operational soon.
The only thing remaining is permission from DINAMA.
This Uruguayan Business Reports news article is a translation of a news article that appeared in the Uruguayan newspaper El Observador. The original article is available in Spanish here. Uruguay Business Reports translation by Donovan Carberry.
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