The main markets to which Paracel will sell its production will be Asia and Europe.

All the wood for the production of Paracel will arrive at the factory cut into logs without bark to be divided into small chips. Trucks and barges will be used for transportation, depending on the origin and distance from where the wood is found.

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The Kraft process processes black liquor and regenerates cooking chemicals. The recovery boiler is the central point in the Kraft process recovery system and performs the following functions:Evaporate waste water from black liquor.Combustion organic matter from black liquor with the highest possible thermal efficiency and provide heat for steam production.Reduce oxidized sulfur compounds to sodium sulfide (chemicals used in production) and transformation of sodium salts into sodium carbonate.Recover inorganic compounds in salt or molten form.Paracel opted for this Kraft process because of the advantages it offers:It is versatile, that is, it can be worked with any type of wood.It allows the recovery of cooking liquor, the production of steam and electricity for self-consumption.It allows the recovery of by-products.It allows obtaining a high level of whiteness in the product and a high-strength pulp.

Water extremes can eventually affect. For this reason, Paracel has planned a contingency plan for the case of an extreme downpour of the Paraguay River in the Concepción area. This plan contemplates land transport to a port south of the city of Asunción; in that port, barges would be loaded to transport cellulose to the ocean terminal.

The 250kg bales of cellulose will be loaded on barges and transported across the Paraguay River, to the maritime terminal that will be located in a port in Uruguay, where they will be loaded onto overseas ships for their final destination (Asia, Europe, and other countries of the world).

The Paracel industrial plant is designed for a capacity of 1.8 million tons of bleached Kraft eucalyptus cellulose per year.

No. The Paracel port is designed exclusively for loading cellulose and for receiving raw materials such as wood and supplies for our industrial plant.

Yes. The demand for paper for packaging and/or for sanitary purposes has shown an increase that is proportional to the growth of the world population. Also, there is a global trend that encourages the replacement of plastic with paper, taking into account that the latter has a shorter decomposition time. For example, if we only focus on China, it is the country with the highest pulp deficit and needs to secure at least 10 m tons of cellulose by 2025.

Cellulose is a raw material applied to various everyday materials: writing paper, packaging, books and magazines, toilet paper, diapers, tissues and even special papers, among others. Our raw material is vegetable, which allows us to develop biodegradable and recyclable products.

No. Paracel will be the first pulp mill in Paraguay.

No. Paracel will produce the raw material for the manufacture of paper.

It all starts when the eucalyptus tree is planted, cultivated and harvested with great care. After a cycle of approximately seven years, the eucalyptus is cut, peeled and transported to the industrial plant. Barks, leaves and twigs remain in the soil to become organic matter. Upon arrival at the factory, the wood logs are cut into small pieces, called chips. The purpose of chipping is to reduce the trunks to fragments, facilitating the penetration of the cooking liquor from chemical processes. The preparation of chips is an important operation, because the final quality of the paste depends on it. In the digester, a machine that works like a “large pressure cooker”, the wood, in contact with steam and chemicals, is processed and transformed into cellulose and lignin pulp. In continuous digesters, the chips are introduced continuously through special valves, the products being discharged simultaneously in the same proportion. Once cooked, the cellulose is washed, purified, bleached, dried, pressed and packed into bales. In the washing and purification process, impurities are removed, quality is increased, appearance is improved, bleaching costs are reduced and pulp handling is improved. Bleaching is a sequence of physical and chemical treatments to which it is subjected The pulp cellulose to improve some of its properties such as whiteness, cleaning and chemical purity, promoting a better interaction of the pulp with light. Bleaching makes it possible to increase the capacity of paper to accept printing or images and, consequently, to increase the usefulness of the papers. This means that during bleaching, the pulp is purified, meaning that the unwanted particles that contaminate the fibers are removed. During drying, which is the final process, water is removed from the cellulose. After drying, the pulp sheets are cut and organized into bales, making it easy to transport.

Cellulose is a polysaccharide, that is, it is a carbohydrate similar to sugar and is the main component of the cell wall of plant fibers, which provides rigidity and firmness to plants. Cellulose together with lignin, resins and minerals are the elements that make up wood. Cellulose represents about 50% of all wood, a raw material that gives rise to several products that we use on a daily basis.

Cellulose is obtained from the trunk of the tree (at Paracel we will use eucalyptus wood) through an industrial process. It is extracted in the form of a paste, separating it from lignin, resins and minerals, the latter being used to generate renewable energy (electricity) to supply the industrial plant.