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 more than 110,000 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 has increase by 200,000 tonnes, while biomass-based electricity generation will go up by 400,000 MWh. Thus, the ENCE Group will become a national reference point in the generation of biomass-based energy.
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.
