Paracel does not have this service. However, there are forest credits produced by development agencies that are disbursed through commercial plaza banks.

There are two types of contract: The first is called Standing Wood, where Paracel is responsible for harvesting and transporting wood from the property of the person or institution participating in the Program to the industrial plant. And the Factory Setup modality, where the person or institution participating in the Program is responsible for harvesting and transporting the wood without bark, to the Paracel industrial plant.

Yes, the minimum planting area is 500 hectares concentrated on a single site.

MODALITY: STANDING WOOD Current price of wood is US$ 18 /m³, with bark, with annual correction based on American inflation.MODALITY: DELIVERED TO THE FACTORY/PARACEL Current price of wood of US$ 45 /m³, without bark, with annual correction based on American inflation.

Once the pre-harvest inventory has been carried out in case of hiring Standing Wood or receiving the wood at the industrial plant. In the case of contracting Factory-Placed Wood, payment is made as agreed in the contract.

Interested individuals, organizations or institutions must adapt their business to the principles and criteria of forest management certification, which guarantee that forest management is ecologically appropriate, socially just and economically viable, in compliance with all applicable laws. Paracel will guide and follow up on this process.

Clones of eucalyptus species previously designated by the Paracel technical team will be used.

— You must allow Paracel techniques and technicians to access the property.- Follow technical guidelines.- Perform periodic maintenance in your forest areas.- Control ants, invasive plants and fires, to ensure the expected quality and productivity.

The technical team will carry out regular visits from the time of implantation and during the growth of the plantations. In the same way, the owner and/or owner can contact the Paracel team with any questions, queries or advice they need.

No. Depending on the type of association, institution, owner and/or owner, it can carry out planting and even forest management with its own resources, provided that it complies with Paracel's technical, socio-environmental and legal requirements.

It is a program that stems from the need to increase the availability of wood for raw materials at the national level and with the social commitment to provide a business alternative for producers in the Paracel area of influence.

They are those where the environment is cared for and promote the social and economic development of their area of influence.

The wood from the plantations of the Forest Development Program will be destined for the Paracel industrial plant as raw material.

A. Initial contactIt can be given to each producer, producer, organization or institution interested in Paracel or vice versa, where the first guidelines are broadly established and the maps are requested in digital or physical format of the establishment and the area of interest to be allocated to the plantations. B. Technical visit The objective is to know the property and the area of interest to carry out a primary evaluation of soil suitability, road conditions and access. C. Cabinet After having the information about the property, Paracel is request a report from the company's Geoprocessing area, which analyzes whether there are environmental liabilities and the areas where they can be planted and the legal reserve area.D. Submission of Documents.At this stage, institutions, organizations or interested individuals must provide the relevant documentation to the Paracel technical team:Copy of the property title/Licenses/Other Documents.E. Negotiations.At this stage, the parties agree on the technical, commercial and legal conditions.F. Signing of the contractOnce the real area has been established of the project and after the negotiations, the contract for the plantations is signed.

- Title to the property.

- Documentation from the owners.

- Forest plantation project approved by INFONA.

- Compliance with environmental and social regulations.

● Law No. 6676/20 (Zero Deforestation).

● Law No. 422/73 “Forestry”.

● EIA Act No. 294/93.

● Decree 1039/18 (Indigenous Peoples).

● Forest Certification.

At Paracel, we guarantee the price per cubic meter, which will be adjusted at harvest time according to the consumer price index that reflects year-on-year inflation as published by the US Central Bank in its inflation reports.

NET FORESTRY (PURE): the entire surface of the plot is occupied by forest plantations.SilvoPastoral: livestock and forestry integration. Diversification is a way to protect against damage caused by pests, climate change and falling prices. To guarantee income and be less vulnerable to unforeseen events, it is important to invest in growing a variety of products.

Income generation and diversification of activities for producers, institutions or interested organizations, making their economy more viable through the planting of eucalyptus trees. Complement forest production activity to their current sectors. Offer a new sector to your economy. Availability of raw materials for the future factory. Encourage the adoption of environmentally and socio-economic balanced production systems that consist of principles of sustainability. Growth of the local economy in direct and indirect radio to the country with growth of existing businesses and creation of new ones. Provide guidance for rural producers, producers, institutions or organizations to obtain forest certification. Stimulate climate regulation through planting, since trees absorb CO2 (carbon dioxide) and transform it into raw material for their growth.

Forest Development focuses on income generation and the diversification of the activities of producers, producers, institutions or organizations, making their economy more viable through the planting of eucalyptus trees in the systems that best suit them, such as the Silvopastoral System and the Net Forest System, complementing the traditional activities of the region and at the same time guaranteeing the existence of raw materials for the industry.

The catchment area is 200 km from the factory, located in the Zapatero Cué district of Paso Horqueta, about 30 km from the city of Concepción. This area encompasses the departments of Concepción, San Pedro and Amambay.

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.

Paracel has an internal procedure for requesting and approving visits. For more information, go to the following link: Request for Visits.

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.

Yes. We have a Code of Ethics, which establishes the corporate principles and values of Paracel and includes the rules that must govern all actions and behaviors of our project, its members and interest groups, which in some way relate to the company.

At Paracel we promote collaboration, integrity, transparency, responsibility, leadership, equity, inclusion, respect, equality, dialogue and above all the protection of people and the planet. Paracel is a company that was created with the purpose of providing social and environmental solutions through its different processes and actions.

No. Paracel will implement the necessary mechanisms to ensure that there are no disturbances in the environment related to the noise generated by quarterly monitoring noise levels at 5 points already established in the baseline. The values will be compared with the limits or levels accepted for industrial activities. In addition to monitoring, preventive measures will be established, such as the use of insulation systems in equipment that could generate noise and protective measures for employees and collaborators in the industry. In addition to monitoring, preventive measures will be established, such as the use of equipment isolation systems that could generate noise and protective measures for employees and collaborators in the industry.

Paracel will manage waste, coming from all operating sites, that is, the industrial component, the forestry component and the administrative offices, following the Comprehensive Waste Management Program, which includes as its main criteria, the adoption of minimization measures at source, as well as management from generation, characterization, segregation, temporary storage, collection and transport, treatment and final disposal of waste.

Because eucalyptus plantations will have a cycle of at least six years between planting and harvest, the use of agrochemicals will be low and will be concentrated only on the initial phase of cultivation. Ants will be monitored throughout the cycle and controlled using mostly low-toxic products and in compliance with legal regulations.

Yes. The surfaces of forest plantations will capture significant carbon present in the air, so Paracel will contribute to mitigating the increase in the concentration of CO2, the main Greenhouse Gas (GHG) that causes global warming. The Carbon balance, that is, the CO2 emissions of Paracel activities minus the carbon capture that its forest plantations will carry out gives a positive balance, that is, it will capture more CO2 from the air, than will be emitted. In addition, native forests and natural areas that will be released. they will be under conservation in the Paracel properties and will act as carbon sinks, which means that the emission of CO2 will also be avoided due to the change in use of these areas, if they were not conserved.

Eucalyptus forest plantations will be managed adopting soil conservation criteria, including: - Maintaining soil fertility and organic matter content: based on physicochemical analysis, fertilization recommendations are made for each type of soil, to ensure that the nutrients that are extracted are returned to the soil in the optimal amount.- Erosion control: practices are carried out that prevent soil loss by water or wind trick.- Pollution prevention: adopted practices such as oil and fuel management to prevent water and soil pollution. In addition, legal requirements and those required by FSC® and IFC standards are included as principles of sustainable production.

Paracel provides several mechanisms for managing its effluents or liquid waste, both in the construction phase and in the operation of the factory. As preventive measures to reduce the volume of wastewater or effluent generation, we will implement actions for the recirculation and reuse of water in all our processes.

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All effluents discharged to the Paraguay River will comply with the limits established in SEAM Resolution No. 222/2002 “Establishing the standard of water quality in the national territory”.

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The effluent treatment system of the factory operation basically consists of three stages: primary, secondary and tertiary treatment.

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The effluent quality parameters will be monitored through regular sampling at the entrance and exit of the treatment plant, through laboratory analysis. In addition, samples are planned to be sent for verification to external laboratories, according to the frequency required by the enforcement authority.

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The sampling of the effluent for the corresponding analyses will be in real time (online), simple (instant collection) or composed of a period of 24 hours, being collected by automatic samplers. In turn, these will be carried out at the entrance and exit of the Effluent Treatment Plant. If the parameters exceed the established limits, the effluent will be redirected to an emergency lagoon in the PTE.

Yes. Paracel will not affect the legal surface of the existing forest, which corresponds to 25% of the wooded area that existed in the base year (1986) on each property. Native forests and riparian forests (protectors of water channels) that represent legal reserves, of all Paracel properties will be preserved in their entirety. Paracel provides for mechanisms for constant monitoring, through high-resolution satellite images and drone overflight, in order to verify the evolution of the forest cover surface and the evolution of regenerated, recovered or restored areas; in turn, procedures are contemplated for the monitoring and control of illegal activities that may affect the quality and quantity of forest surface.

Yes. Paracel has all the permits required by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADES). You can access this information at the following link: https://paracel.com.py/documentos/

Paracel will use the best available technologies and best environmental practices to treat air emissions that could generate odors. Capture and absorption devices will be adopted to prevent the dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere, which will be pre-cleaned before their final emission, as well as the use of high-efficiency electrostatic precipitators in boilers, a real-time gas monitoring and control system.

Yes. Paracel has developed a Program for Relationship with Communities and Social Investment, which includes various actions to strengthen the social infrastructure of Concepción, in order to promote local development and promote the close link between communities and companies, in addition to improving production and innovation capacity in order to add value to income-generating activities, especially for indigenous families.

Yes, Paracel invested a lot of time, effort and resources in environmental and social impact assessments. The potential environmental and social impacts of the project have been thoroughly investigated in an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (EiAP). These studies were carried out by third parties and are also part of the legal authorization process. For more information, go to: https://paracel.com.py/documentos/

Yes, Paracel works closely with State institutions, Academia and other civil society organizations, in order to implement their programs, plans and policies. It currently has more than 20 signed agreements.

Yes. Social responsibility has been part of the organization's strategy since its inception. Applying the principles of Corporate Social Responsibility transversally to all links of the company will allow us to obtain high organizational performance that will directly translate into business profitability. All companies generate impacts in one way or another, so we must be duly diligent and analyze the magnitude of the impacts and whether they are positive or negative, both for the company and for its different interest groups. Paracel is an industry that will use modern technologies and techniques whose socio-environmental impacts are minimal. We will develop projects that contribute to solving the country's economic, social and environmental problems. Measuring our performance in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility is a commitment made by Paracel, and for this purpose we will use the most advanced standards in the world, such as ISO 26,000, the Sustainable Development Goals, IFC, FSC® Certification and Certification B, among others.

Yes. Paracel bases its relationship with indigenous communities on the framework of Decree 1039/18 “Protocol for the Process of Consultation and Free, Prior and Informed Consent with Indigenous Peoples who live in Paraguay”, so that the process of relating to indigenous communities is respectful of their rights, their dignity, their aspirations, their culture and means of livelihood. Paracel has worked on the development of three key documents that guide their actions in the processes of linking with indigenous peoples: - Program of Relationship with Indigenous Communities.- Policy for Linking with Indigenous Peoples .- Plan for Indigenous Peoples. At this point, it is important to highlight that Paracel not only focuses on indigenous communities but on all those that are in its area of influence.

Paracel will contribute significantly to the economic development of the department of Concepción, through the development of a new export sector at the national level, and significant investments in plantations, infrastructure, equipment and training, making it possible to attract long-term foreign investment, contributing to the development of small and medium-sized domestic and other foreign companies, encouraging the creation of new jobs.