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Friday, 29.03.2024, 02:40
Minister: developers of pulp mill project in Estonia can't count on rise in allowable cut
"They can have no expectation or grounds to believe that when they
need more raw material, someone will start increasing prescribed cut in
Estonia," Palo said in parliament, adding that the missing amount would
have to be imported.
The minister described giving value-added to the wood cut in Estonia as
important for the Estonian economy and environment. She said that in 2015, 83
percent of the coniferous pulpwood cut in Estonia and more than 60 percent of
non-coniferous pulpwood cut in Estonia was exported.
"We are exporting it without giving value-added to it. We just cut it
and export as round timber," Palo said. The minister said that the pulp
mill has set its sights on the pulpwood that is exported at present.
"We all will gain from this and get richer," she said.
Est-For Invest, a company of Estonian businesspeople with
a background in wood industry, is planning to set up a one billion euro
pulp mill near Tartu in southern Estonia that would process approximately
2.5-3.3 million tons of pulpwood a year and export its output.
According to the initial forecast, the mill would start production in 2022.
The planned average production capacity is up to 750,000 tons of bio products a
year.