Mar 16, 2005. /Lesprom Network/. Kronospan Polska, the Polish unit of Austria-based chipboard maker Kronospan, will launch procedures for starting the construction of its chipboard plant in Tyrow near Ostroda, Warminsko- Mazurskie province, northeastern Poland, reported Polish News Digest. The plant construction will be launched despite the protests of local investors and environment protection organisation Zielona Ostroda after the Ostroda authorities approved the controversial project. Among the investors protesting against Kronospan's project is cosmetics producer Dr Irena Eris, who is building her beauty farm near Ostroda, meat processing group Animex, an owner of Morliny meat processing plant, as well as the regional sailors' community, which fear that the new plant will cause an irreversible damage to the province's environment and particularly so to Drweck lake and Drweck river. Nevertheless, unemployed in the Ostroda region back the idea of the plant construction. Currently, the unemployment rate in the Ostroda county is 33%. Kronospan intends to employ 1,500 at the plant construction and the plant itself will create 600 jobs. The plant will process 1.5 million cu m of timber. Kronospan Polska already runs chipboard factories in Mielec, Zary and Szczecinek.