# Progroup to build €375M paper mill in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Germany

Progroup will build a new paper machine (PM 3) in Sandersdorf-Brehna near Bitterfeld, Germany, with an investment of €375 million and 750,000 t annual output. Construction is scheduled to start in Q1 2019, with completion in the second half of 2020.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2018-05-16
- Where: Sandersdorf-Brehna, Bitterfeld, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
- Value: $445.0M (375.0M EUR)
- Jobs: 140
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 750,000 t annual output of recycled fluting and testliner
- Products: recycled fluting, testliner, corrugated case material
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Progroup](https://endata.com/companies/1305.md)

## Sources

- [euwid-paper.com](https://www.euwid-paper.com/news/markets/progroup-starts-construction-of-its-new-paper-mill-in-eastern-germany-in-early-2019/), 2018-05-16: "The investment volume amounts to a total of €375 million for the construction of the paper machine, depending on the final technical configuration."
- [pulpapernews.com](https://www.pulpapernews.com/20190803/9516/german-group-launch-new-corrugated-cardboard-plant), 2018-05-25: "Progroup's new PM3 paper machine will make corrugated cardboard, and it will have an annual capacity of 750,000 tonnes per year."
- [globalpapermoney.com](https://www.globalpapermoney.com/progroup-starts-construction-of-its-new-paper-mill-in-eastern-germany-in-early-2019-cms-10237), 2018-06-05: "The investment volume amounts to a total of €375 million for the construction of the paper machine, depending on the final technical configuration."
- [packagingnews.co.uk](https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/features/raj-bhardwaj-epic-storm-brewing-european-markets-26-06-2018), 2018-06-26: "A continental gale of creative destruction will hit Europe in the form of Progroup's new 750,000 tonne containerboard mill in Eastern Germany."

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