# Estonian Cell completes €20M expansion in Kunda, Estonia

Estonian Cell completed a €20 million investment at its Kunda plant, increasing production capacity to 185,000 tons per year and adding a new wastewater treatment plant. The new equipment was launched in the last quarter and the facility opened on September 18, 2019.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2019-09-19
- Where: Kunda, Estonia
- Value: $22.0M (20.0M EUR)
- Starts operating: 18 Sep 2019
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 185,000 tons per year
- Products: aspen bleached chemi-thermochemical pulp (BCTMP)
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Estonian Cell](https://endata.com/companies/42202.md)
- [Valmet](https://endata.com/companies/244.md) (supplier)
- [ANDRITZ](https://endata.com/companies/2007.md) (supplier)
- [Hager + Elsässer](https://endata.com/companies/29556.md) (supplier)

## Sources

- [news.err.ee](https://news.err.ee/982445/estonian-cell-completes-20-million-investment-in-kunda), 2019-09-19: "With this project, we built a new aerobic wastewater treatment plant which employs a new technology that will enable us to direct even cleaner wastewater into the sea and use significantly less electricity."

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