Jun 24, 2013. /Lesprom Network/. Ilim Group has officially inaugurated its new pulp mill in Bratsk, Irkutsk Oblast, the largest investment project completed in the Russian pulp and paper industry over the last 30 years and the world's largest fiberline, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network.

Total investments in the Big Bratsk project exceeded $800 million. Annual capacity of the new fiberline after ramp-up will reach 720,000 tons of bleached softwood market pulp, with the total annual pulp and paper products output of the Bratsk Mill of OJSC Ilim Group exceeding 1 million tons per year.

This successfully completed project will make the Bratsk Mill more efficient and more environmentally friendly. In addition to the construction of a new fiberline, the project involved the upgrade of the infrastructure, including construction of a new recovery boiler, new woodyard, new chemicals preparation plant, etc. The Mill is now fitted with the cutting edge equipment supplied by the world's leading manufacturers.