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Full name of the company

Republican Production Unitary Enterprise Newsprint Plant

Year of establishment

2005

Primary activity

Production of pulp and paper products

Products, services description (detailed, indicating CN FEA code)

- Standard and improved newsprint; - Super calendered paper is the most economical paper (after newsprint and miscellaneous papers), and is commonly used in magazine publications; - Offset paper, designed for web offset printing of simple and complex illustration and text single and multi-color long lasting publications, mass market books and magazines, including children's literature, and other printed products; - Coated paper (MWL and LWC) - high quality paper used for the production of glossy magazines, presentation catalogs, booklets and other materials for which the importance of vivid colors and pleasant appearance; - single-sided coated, label paper (C1S).

Superior body

Belarusian Production and Trade Concern of forestry, woodworking and pulp and paper industry

Type of investment project

Investment projects offered for implementation

Total volume of investments, thousand $

35210.113

Expected input of an investor, thousand $

30571.65

Project period

2023-2025

Investor participation form

credit financing

Project description

Modernization of newsprint production section and paper machine PM №1 for production of new products (offset and super calendered paper) with capacity of 49,000 tons of paper per year and expanded modernization of PM №1 for production of additional light (LWC) and medium (MCW) coated paper with total output of 52,000 tons of finished product per year. The company focuses on import substitution. The number of created/modernized jobs: 61.

The nomenclature of the product to be produced with indication of the CN FEA code

- Standard and improved newsprint; - Super calendered paper is the most economical paper (after newsprint and miscellaneous papers), and is commonly used in magazine publications; - Offset paper, designed for web offset printing of simple and complex illustration and text single and multi-color long lasting publications, mass market books and magazines, including children's literature, and other printed products; - Coated paper (MWL and LWC) - high quality paper used for the production of glossy magazines, presentation catalogs, booklets and other materials for which the importance of vivid colors and pleasant appearance; - single-sided coated, label paper (C1S).

Volume of investments, thousand $

35210

Annual revenues once fully operational (without VAT, thousand $)

42568

NPV, thousand $

10 574

IRR, %

17

Discount Rate, %

3.2

Potential customer

JSC PK Pushkinskaya Ploshchad (RF, Moscow), LLC Typographic Complex Deviz (RF, St. Petersburg), LLC Pervy Polygraphichesky Kombinat (RF, Moscow region, The first polygraphic combine (RF, Moscow region, Krasnogorsk), MDM-Pechat (RF, Saint-Petersburg), IPK Pareto-Print (RF, Tver), Onega (RF, Saint-Petersburg), Artbum (RF, Moscow), Murodli Savdo (Uzbekistan)

Key benefits of the project

1. the brand of RUE Newsprint Plant is ASNOVA, which is already known both in the EEU and the EU. The company is equipped with the latest technology for manufacturing various types of newsprint; 2. the company employs qualified specialists who have the necessary knowledge and practical experience; 3. The enterprise has a network of raw material supplies and components; 4. the dealer network of newsprint factory RUE is presented by the following companies: in Ukraine - Asnova s.r.o.; in Turkey - ELMAC IC VE DIS TICARET LTD; in Serbia - Beo-Dragos d.o.o.; in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Cameroon, Pakistan - Coolibree GmbH; in Iran - Negar; 5. certificate of compliance No. BY/112 05.01.002 02144 dated 02.08.2010; No. BY/112 05.04. 091 01903 dated 29.03.2018; environmental compliance certificate BY/112 06.01. 002 00407 dated 17.08.2018

Level of project development: feasibility study, business-plan (indicating the date of development), pre-investment study, design estimate documentation, construction work in progress etc.

availability of a feasibility study, business plan (June 2022), market survey conducted by LLC Makorus (Russian Federation) 30.05.2022.

Simple pay-back period, yrs

9.3

The effect of the investment project

Production of import-substituting products will make it possible to change the current trend of the predominance of imports of paper products over exports of cheap wood raw materials in the Republic of Belarus, as well as to ensure the production of competitive products that are in high demand both in the Republic of Belarus and abroad.