Issue 9 - February 17 Arauco and Turner & Coates put pen to paper Uruguay, the United States and Canada. Built in 2004, Valdivia is a pulp mill and Moreover, the company is now one of biomass-fuelled electricity generating the globe’s five major producers of station located in San José de la Mariquina, renewable forestry resources, to develop Central Chile. In addition to wood pulp Firmly planted: Our long-standing business products that are present in the daily production, the site also generates 61 relationship with Arauco stretches back over four decades. lives of millions of people worldwide. MW of electricity from the burning of volatiles and black liquor - a waste by- Arauco operates primarily in the pulp, IT gives everyone at Turner & Coates product resulting from the kraft process panels and sawn timber sectors on a immense pleasure to announce that of digesting pulpwood into paper pulp. we have been awarded a contract to multi-national scale. The company’s inspect and expedite a consignment pulp division provides long and short- Turner & Coates was assigned by Arauco of new, state-of-the-art equipment, by fibre bleached pulp, which is used as to inspect and expedite both the existing Chilean pulp, paper and engineered raw material for manufacturing printing equipment at the Valdivia pulp mill, as wood company, Celulosa Arauco y and writing paper, as well as toilet tissue well as new power and utility machinery Constitución. and wrapping. The company’s panels from Finland, in order to further develop division handles the production and the plant. As part of this project, we also Founded in 1968 to produce and manage distribution of plywood panels, medium helped to coordinate the shipping process. renewable forest resources in the Bío Bío density fibreboard (MDF), hardboard Located 30km west of Chillán and 420km region of Central Chile, Arauco is now and mouldings. south of Santiago, the Itata sawmill and firmly established as one of the world’s The sawn timber division provides various greenfield pulp mill plant was opened in largest forestry businesses, not only in sizes of sawn wood and remanufactured Spring 2006. Again, we were contracted terms of forest surface and industrial products for use in the furniture, packing, to provide full inspection and expediting facilities, but also in relation to its proven construction and refurbishing industries. services on existing plant equipment, as efficiency, certified production standards, Arauco also operates a forestry division well as new power and utility machinery commitment to innovation and social & that supplies and sells sawn logs, pulpable coming from Europe, which included environmental responsibility. logs, posts and chips. As of 2016, the turbo-generators, power and recovery Along with its subsidiaries, Arauco company benefited from more than one boilers and wood-handling apparatus. produces, exports and sells timber-based million hectares of tree plantations in its In our 40-year association with Arauco, we products in five of the world’s seven native Chile, as well as the neighbouring have also worked on many other projects, continents, via a global network of nations of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. including the inspection and expediting of representatives, agents and offices kraft machinery at the Alto Paraná Mill in This latest contract to inspect and expedite located in twelve countries including the Misiones, Argentina, and the upgrade of new, state-of-the-art equipment from Valmet United States of America, Canada and the Nueva Aldea mill at Chillán. In 2010, in Brazil represents a welcome extension China. This worldwide network is re- we were also tasked with inspecting and to a long-standing partnership that stretches inforced by efficient management of the expediting emergency replacement parts back over four decades. As a responsible company’s unparalleled logistics and from Scandinavia, in order to repair one of company committed to high standards in distribution chain which includes transport, the recovery boilers at the Arauco mill in environmental stewardship, Arauco seeks shipping, storage, foreign trade and Constitución, which had been damaged to minimise the ecological impact of its day - service, delivering high quality products by the devastating earthquake which to-day operations at all times. In view of to more than 3,500 customers through occurred in the February of that year. some 220 major seaports worldwide. this, the company is now in the process of upgrading the existing equipment at “Our strong association with Arauco is a A subsidiary of Chilean energy giant its Valdivia and Arauco Line 1 mills, to source of pride for everyone at Turner & Empresas Copec, headquartered in eliminate non-desirable emissions and Coates,” says company MD Neil Coulborn. Santiago, Arauco maintains 30 production ensure that the mills themselves are both “Our latest project for them is an exciting facilities in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, odourless and environmentally-friendly. one, scheduled for completion in 2017.”

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