Brussels is considering Altri’s textile fiber plant project

Altra still no answer. We are waiting for the central government to clarify how and what amount of help your project will get for textile fiber factory who wants to raise u The king of spades — his investment amounts to 800 million euros — the Portuguese company did not want to sit idly by. Its dome, composed of Jose Pinageneral manager and Charles Van Zellerthe vice president of the executive board traveled this week to Brussels accompanied by the general director drive Galicia, enyd lopezto switch to European Comission technical details of the project.

During a meeting with the Head of the Circular Economy Unit Emmanuelle Maire and José María Ramos Florida from the General Administration for the Environment, the heads of the Portuguese paper mill Altra he highlighted the “pioneering” nature of the initiative, to combine pulp and fiber production in one process, with the use of textile waste, using certified Galician wood as raw material.

The response of the Executive Committee of the community, the sources of the consortium point out, was very positive. After seeing the plans, they congratulated their proponents, since it belongs to the objectives of the circular economy proposed by the EU.

There was also time to resolve the status of its processing, slowed down by ministerial obstacles. Namely, the European Commission was informed about the problems that the company has in order to finance the factory in Spain, where there is no specific PERTE that I can attend.

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The government forced the company to split its project into some 17 different applications, opting for very small batches with very different criteria and requirements, something that complicated the operation and start-up of the factory, which is progressing well. the raya. Because?

The construction of a twin biofibre plant is progressing at a good pace in Portugal, where the António Costa government has injected €130 million in European aid into the Altri project. The bottlenecks encountered in Spain do not exist in the Portuguese country.