Oct 18, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. An extensive maintenance shutdown is in progress at UPM's Fray Bentos pulp mill in Uruguay. The preparations for the shutdown started already on 13 October 2010. The mill is to be restarted as previously estimated on 10 November 2010, company said in a statement received by Lesprom Network. The shutdown was scheduled in mutual understanding with the Uruguayan environmental authority DINAMA. In addition to normal annual maintenance works the super heaters in the recovery boiler will be replaced. During the maintenance period, 800-1,000 additional workers will be working onsite. This is the most extensive maintenance since the start of the mill on 10 November 2007. UPM's Fray Bentos Pulp Mill is located on the bank of the River Uruguay 4 kilometres east of the city of Fray Bentos, in Uruguay. The mill's annual production capacity is about 1.1 million tonnes of bleached eucalyptus pulp, which is suitable for manufacturing fine and magazine papers, carton and tissue paper.