# Lenzing and Duratex to build $1.3B dissolving wood-pulp plant in Brazil

Lenzing Group and Duratex will jointly build a 500,000-ton dissolving wood-pulp plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with startup planned for the first half of 2022. The joint venture is 51% owned by Lenzing and 49% by Duratex, with an expected industrial CAPEX of approximately $1.3 billion.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2020-01-02
- Where: State of Minas Gerais, near Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Value: $1.30B
- Starts operating: Q3 2022
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 500,000 tons per year
- Products: dissolving wood pulp
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Lenzing AG](https://endata.com/companies/20683.md)
- [Duratex](https://endata.com/companies/39547.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [chemengonline.com](https://www.chemengonline.com/lenzing-and-duratex-to-jointly-build-world-scale-dissolving-wood-pulp-plant-in-brazil/), 2020-01-02: "The startup is planned for the first half of 2022."

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