After more than 7 months of shutdown, RDM Group, leading producer of recycled cartonboard, announced that its Villa Santa Lucia mill in Italy will restart as of March 4th, 2024.
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The paper mill restart follows several talks and collaboration with institutions and entities involved, which have always been held since the company was regretfully forced to put the mill on shutdown. The cooperation with the institutions, first and foremost the Lazio Region, has led to a key clarification regarding the most recent regional resolutions; as a result, today the Group accepted the solicitation by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, the Region’s Department of Productive Activities, unions and all other institutions present at today’s meeting at the Ministry in order to stop and close the business shutdown procedure, as well as that concerning the collective redundancy of its 163 employees, which started on January 11th, 2024.
Ahead of the renewal of the Integrated Environmental Authorisation (IEA), a number of matters are still to be agreed on with regard to the categorization of some materials and the handling of some flows. In this regard, the Company and the institutions have already mapped out a path to provide more information. Indeed, the Group’s goal is for the practices already implemented in all paper mills recycling wastepaper, both in Italy and in Europe, to be used at Villa Santa Lucia mill as well.
RDM Group is the leading producer in the recycled cartonboard business and the largest producer in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and in the Iberian Peninsula.
