President Luis Lacalle Pou will participate in the inauguration of the new pulp mill of the company UPM, known as UPM IIin Centennial Town, Durazno.
Together with Lacalle, the mayor of Durazno will be present, Carmelo Vidalinthe Minister of Industry, Omar Paganiniand the Chairman of the Board of UPM, Henrik Ehrnrooth.
The event will begin at 1:30 p.m., and will feature the words of Ehrnrooth, Vidalín and Paganini, before the traditional “ribbon cutting” which officially inaugurates the work, and an artistic show that will close the day.
“Together, we built the most modern UPM plant in the world. Together we grew, learned and raised standards hand in hand with hundreds of small and medium-sized companies”, wrote the official Twitter account of the Uruguayan branch of UPM this Sunday.
Together, we built the most modern UPM plant in the world. Together we grew, learned and raised standards hand in hand with hundreds of small and medium-sized companies ??
I followed the inauguration of the plant live this Tuesday on our YouTube channel https://t.co/ReLR1d8kjO pic.twitter.com/xtqyH0tGnk
—UPM Uruguay (@UPMUruguay) June 4, 2023
The new work began its operations on April 14, after three years of works and a total investment of US$ 3,470 million, which also included a deep water port terminal in Montevideo, the construction of the third eucalyptus nursery of the company in Sarandí del Yí, and investments in infrastructure and local facilities in the interior of the country.
During the construction process of the plant 20,000 Uruguayans were employed and 300 national companies participated in the work. The concrete used is equivalent to building more than 20 Centennial stadiumsand the amount of steel used in the construction of 10 Eiffel towers.
The industrial complex has an annual production capacity of 2.1 million tons of pulp per yearwhich will be transferred in the new Central Railway to Montevideoand that until the completion of that work it arrives in 200 trucks per day to the capital.
