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Arauco’s Constitución mill to restart Thursday in Chile

May 19, 2010

By  Fernanda Belchior, Assistant Editor, PPI Latin America, RISI

Arauco’s Constitución mill to restart Thursday in Chile

SAO PAULO, May 19, 2010 (RISI) - Arauco will begin ramping up its 360,000 tonnes/yr unbleached kraft (UBK) Constitución mill in Chile's Maule region Thursday. The plant was swamped by a tsunami that followed the devastating Feb. 27 earthquake that damaged several wood, pulp and paper mills and brought the country's pulp production industry to a standstill.

According to Arauco 28% of the district's labor force is tied to its Constitución pulp mill, and the facility is "the key industrial installation for the Constitución economy's recovery."



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