ICT Ibérica will invest 60 million in its plant in El Burgo de Ebro

The Governing Council has approved the declaration of Autonomous Interest of the project for self-consumption without surpluses by the company Industrie Cartarie Tronchetti Ibérica in El Burgo de Ebro (ICT Ibérica). The project, carried out together with the Aragonese company Atalaya, will be developed in two phases that include a photovoltaic and wind power plant in order to be able to generate 58% of the company’s new electricity consumption and for this the company will invest around 60 million euros.

In the first phase of the so-called Royal Project, a photovoltaic plant will be built on land adjacent to the current facilities with a capacity of 4 MW. In addition, a wind farm with two turbines will have a capacity of 12 MW. In addition, a substation and an underground high-voltage line are included . In total, this first phase is expected to generate 43% of its current electricity consumption, and avoid the emission of some 10,000 tons of Co2 per year. In this first phase, it is planned to invest 16.9 million euros.

In the second phase, with an investment of 43.2 million euros, the renewable installation will be expanded to reach 18 MW of photovoltaic power and 30 MW of wind power, to self-generate approximately 58% of the new electricity consumption.

ICT IBÉRICA HAS THE CAPACITY TO PRODUCE 70,000 TONS

ICT Ibérica is a company belonging to the ICT Group with headquarters in Lucca (Italy), founded in 1999. Six years later, it set up in Burgo de Ebro with a newly created integrated facility for the production of tissue paper and for its transformation into toilet paper rolls, kitchen paper rolls and other tissue paper products with a capacity of 70,000 tonnes.

In September 2018, the second phase of the doubling of production capacity was completed with the commissioning of a second continuous tissue paper production machine, which increased production to 140,000 tonnes. In addition, as part of the doubling project, additional processing lines and a fully automated warehouse, capable of handling 25,000 pallets of products, were installed.

Since its establishment in the community, ICT Ibérica has invested more than 260 million euros in productive assets.