Grupo Empreserial ENCE SA

The Company operates through two major divisions, the Pulp Division and the Forest Division.
The ENCE Group’s business is based on protection, promotion and exploitation of the forest reserves it manages to produce and extract wood and biomass for subsequent conversion into cellulose pulp and renewable energy.
The company has nearly 250,000 hectares of Eucalyptus forest land in Spain and Uruguay, which it runs in accordance with the most stringent international requirements for Sustainable Forest Management to ensure that the natural medium on which the entire Group’s business depends is maintained permanently in an optimum state of preservation. In this sense, the ENCE Group develops a full Research and Development programme geared towards genetically improving forest species as well as applying advanced forestry techniques to enhance productivity and quality from its forest farms and the capability of its pulp to fulfil customers’ requirements.
 
ENCE has three industrial complexes in Spain (Huelva, Navia in Asturias, and Pontevedra) where it currently produces 1.1 million tonnes of pulp and 1.1 million MWh of renewable energy. On this basis, the company is currently developing new projects in Spain to maximise energy efficiency at its plants, as well as to make full use of its forestry experience to expand in the generation of renewable biomass-based energy. A prominent highlight of these projects is the new extension of the Navia plant, whose output of paper pulp will be increased by 200,000 tonnes, while biomass-based electricity generation will go up by 400,000 MWh as from the first quarter of 2009. Thus, the ENCE Group will become a national reference point in the generation of biomass-based energy.

The ENCE Group has started building a mill in Uruguay which will increase the Group's capacity by 1 million tonnes and nearly 1 million MWh of electric energy. This new industrial complex, which will strengthen the Company's competitive edge, has already been granted the most important environmental permits and holds 170,000 hectares of prime forest reserves as a guarantee of its self-sufficiency.

ENCE’s target is to consolidate itself as a world reference in Sustainable Forest development, eucalyptus pulp production and electricity generation using renewable sources such as a biomass, thereby standing as an example of business committed to the sustainable development of our society and the fight against climate change.