Fibria hires suppliers for expansion project
Fibria will expand production capacity at its Três Lagoas Unit. Startup is expected in the fourth quarter of 2017.
The Horizonte 2 Project, which was approved by Fibria’s Board of Directors on May 14, involves the construction, at the Três Lagoas Unit, of a second production line with annual pulp capacity of 1,75 million tons. After the expansion, whose startup is expected in the fourth quarter of 2017, the Mato Grosso do Sul unit will reach full annual production capacity of 3,05 million tons of pulp.
On July 30 the company hired Andritz to supply a package comprising the wood chip yard, fiber line, drying machine, recovery boiler, evaporation and causticizing processes and lime kiln. To date, Fibria has also negotiated the contracting of infrastructure, turbogenerators (Siemens), construction management (Time Now), automatic valves (Flowserve), centrifugal pumps (Sulzer), the entire power transmission and distribution system (Asea Brown Boveri – ABB), which includes the primary substation, engines, motor control center (MCC) and transformers, and Balance of Plant – BOP (Pöyry).
The value of the contracts will not be disclosed due to the signing of nondisclosure agreements typical to deals of this type.