Chilean CMPC to Perform Site Selection for Grassroot Sawmill

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Chilean company CMPC (Santiago) has been granted environmental permission for the construction of a sawmill. At present, the location for the facility is being chosen. The site is expected to be announced in the second quarter of 2010. The total investment cost of the project is estimated at about $15 million.

One of the sites for the proposed mill is east of a town called Loncoche, which is in the province of Caution, Region IX. The project involves building a sawmill to process 120,000 cubic meters of wood, using 360,000 cubic meters of pine and eucalyptus as raw material.

The company will perform in-house engineering for the building of the facility. The supplier of the equipment has not been specified yet. Infrastructure construction is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2010, and it is scheduled to last for approximately five months. The mill is bound to begin operations in the second quarter of 2011. Approximately 360 people will be employed for the erection of the sawmill.

CMPC is also awaiting permission to install a paper machine in the tissue mill in the Talagante province of Chile. For more details, view December 4, 2009, article - Chilean CMPC Awaits Authorization for Paper Machine Addition.

CMPC is a company that produces and commercializes wood, pulp, tissue, papers and paper products. Located in Santiago de Chile, the company has more than 20 operating mills in various Latin American countries, and it exports its products throughout the five continents.

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