Bracell's "Star Project" uses the best technologies available in the market for the pulp sector, using all this availability in the new plant in Lençóis Paulista
With its start of operations at the end of 2021, the Star Project has as its main characteristic a high capacity of tech, using the best technology for the pulp sector. The company's new factory located in Lençóis Paulista was designed to expand production capacity from 250 thousand tons/year of kraft pulp to 1,5 million tons/year of dissolving pulp or up to 3 million tons/year of pulp craft.
Bracell's project represents the largest private investment in technology in the State of São Paulo in the last 20 years, and the expansion of the new plant has the latest technologies aimed at a new generation pulp mill and does not use fossil fuels. In addition to all these components, the factory is self-sufficient in energy, with its surplus supplying the National Interconnected System with clean, high-quality energy. Also, the unit has two flexible lines designed, primarily, to produce dissolving pulp.
After the expansion is completed, the operation phase will employ around 6.650 workers, direct and outsourced, on a permanent basis in industrial, forestry and logistics activities.
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factory assembly
For the development of the electromechanical assembly of the factory, responsible for the interconnection of processes, known as BOP (Balance Of Plant), Bracell hired the consultancy of the Finnish Poyry.
The agreement between the two, as with LD, was in the EPCM modality, which includes interconnections between all process areas, turbogenerators and steam distribution systems, the water cooling center and other complementary systems.
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