Klabin, the biggest paper producer, exporter and recycler in the country, announced last Tuesday (15/12) the transfer of eight projects inaugurated in Telemaco Borba and five other municipalities in the state of Parana where the company runs forestry activities.
The company’s investment in construction was in the order of R$ 4 million, made possible by the social counterpart contained in the BNDES (National Development Bank) loan to execute Expansion Project MA-110 at the Monte Alegre Plant (PR).
The goal of these projects is to improve educational, health and sanitary conditions in the municipalities receiving the benefits. Between the 15th and 18th of December health clinics in the towns of Reserva, Tibagi and Imbau will be handed over. Telemaco Borba will get the Dr. Luiz Vieira State School, a Selective Waste Collection Center and 15 open-air gym academies, known as “Movimento é Vida” (Movement is Life). In Ortigueira a pediatric ward and the refurbishing of the surgical and x-ray wards will be inaugurated in the São Francisco Hospital. Klabin will also hand over a Sanitary Landfill in Curiuva to CIAS (Intermunicipal Consortium for Sanitary Landfill), which also includes the municipalities of Sapopema and Figueira.
In the opinion of Arthur Canhisares, the industrial director of Klabin’s Monte Alegre Plant, these projects will contribute to the advancement of education, health and quality of life of the population and of sanitation infrastructure in the towns. “Klabin is proud to hand over these buildings and collaborate with the region’s progress. Our Sustainability Policy stipulates that the company is committed to exercising social responsibility with a focus on the communities where it is operating. Consequently, in spite of the global economic crisis, we have pooled our efforts in order to preserve investments, believing that these works are important for everyone”, comments Canhisares.
“These projects came about thanks to the vision and commitment of Klabin and to its partnership with the town halls, which gave much-needed support to complete each one of these works”, concluded Carlos Jose Mendes, Klabin’s manager of Forestry Planning and Research.
In the name of Telemaco Borba, mayor Eros Danilo Araujo thanked Klabin and the BNDES for their sensitivity, which had been turned into social investment. “These are accomplishments which ensure more dignity, citizenship and a better quality of life for us, the people of Telemaco Borba. I can only say, on behalf of the population, thank you very much”, declared mayor Araujo, who is also president of the AMCG (Association of Municipalities in Campos Gerais).
In the case of Telemaco Borba, the Community Committee, which is made up of representatives from the town that include social, business and religious leaders, Town hall, Aldermen, the department of Justice, the Public Prosecutor’s office and Klabin executives, all helped to decide the projects.
Telemaco Borba had already benefited from Project MA-1100 in a number of ways during its execution between 2006 and 2008, which included the training of more than 1500 workers from the town and region, the creation of 8000 temporary jobs and also tax generation estimated to be R$ 350 million. With the installation of Paper Machine no.9 (PM 9) and the conclusion of Project MA-1100, the Monte Alegre Plant came to rank among the ten biggest integrated pulp and paper mills in the world.
About the Social Projects
Telemaco Borba
Dr. Luiz Vieira State School– Total land area is 7,631.56 m2 and the built-up area is 2,085.21m². Besides the school building, with seven classrooms and 13 rooms (computer room, laboratory, director’s office, kitchen and laundry, among others), the project has a poly-sports court and a guardhouse. The school will be able to receive 350 students.
Center for Selective Waste Collection – Total land area is 24,405 m2 and built-up area is 1,316.21 m2. The center has two warehouses, one to sort the waste and another to separate solid wastes for recycling, as well as unloading bays and an office. The center is being transferred with all the necessary equipment to start operations, such as a discharge funnel, conveyor belt, press, scales and computer, and it will have a capacity to recycle 20 tons per day.
Open-air “Movimento é Vida” Gym Academies – The 15 gym academies have a total area of 2,760.58 m², without any estimate of land area since they are located in various squares in the town. Every square in the project received ten pieces of equipment, such as riding and walking simulators, stretching, rowing and rotational equipment. Besides these, benches, trash cans and descriptive plaques were also installed. Telemaco Borba’s entire population will benefit from these units.
Tibagi
Family Health Clinic – Total land area is 300 m2 and built-up area 152.44 m2. The unit has eight rooms to attend the public, three of which are for consulting, and five rooms for various kinds of attendance, such as vaccination, inhalation and first aid, as well as areas for public use and for administrative/restricted use. The unit is also being handed over with the main necessary equipment to start activities, which will benefit the entire Tibagi population.
Reserva
Mayor Oscar Lopes Munhoz Health Clinic – Total land area is 250 m2 and built-up area is 152.44 m2. As in the case of the Tibagi unit, this clinic has three consulting rooms and five rooms to attend vaccination, inhalation and first aid. The clinic is also being handed over with the main necessary equipment to start activities.
Imbau
Family Health Strategy – Total land area is 200 m2 and built-up area is 145.76 m2. The population of Imbau will also be benefitted with a clinic equipped with three consulting rooms and five rooms for various kinds of attendance, as well as the equipment needed to start activities.
Ortigueira
São Francisco Hospital (expansion and remodeling) – Total area of the hospital is 2,268 m2, of which 180 m2 are dedicated to a surgical center and x-ray room which were refurbished. A new pediatric ward with 91.49m2 was built.
As well as overhauling ceilings and walls, new anti-static floors, aluminum windows and a system for hospital gas were all installed. The pediatric ward now has an exclusive area to attend patients. The project also entailed the delivery of new equipment, with a hospital washing machine.
Curiuva
Sanitary Landfill – Land area is 85 thousand m2, of which approximately 10 thousand m² is built-up. The landfill has a ditch of 1,500 m² lined with HDPE (high density polyethylene) sheeting, three wells to monitor the water table, conduits to impound rainwater, a pool to retain rainwater and a well with a recycling system equipped with a group of pumps and piping for recirculation. The site where the landfill was installed has a hedge with 1,463 native trees and concrete fencing with barbed wire.