Penola Pulp Mill
The Penola Pulp Mill is Protavia’s flagship project. The concept arose out of the fact that Australia is the world’s largest exporter of woodchips, but is a significant importer of pulp and paper products.
The Penola Pulp Mill is the most environmentally sustainable development in the pulp and paper industry worldwide. It will be the world’s largest bleached chemi-thermo mechanical (BCTMP) pulp mill and will pioneer the most economically efficient use of water in the pulp and paper industry world wide. Additionally it will be South Australia’s most water efficient large scale business, with zero waste water leaving the site.
The Penola Pulp Mill is fully approved and legislated. It will create a significant export industry to meet the established and growing demand for mechanical pulp in the Asia-Pacific Region. The mill will consume in the order of 1.5 million green metric tonnes of woodchip annually to produce 735,000 air-dry metric tonnes (admt) of hardwood pulp. If exported as raw material these 1.5 million gmt of woodchips would generate approximately A$160million in domestic revenue. Turned into pulp however, the same woodchip will generate approximately $600million.
