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Celulosa Arauco assured that the Map Project is experiencing a “delicate” situation due to the weekend quarantine in the commune where the largest work to be built in Chile is built. The project is 60% complete and employs more than 8 thousand people, 90% of them from the Bío Bío region.
Arauco’s People and Sustainability Manager, Charles Kimber, reported on the progress of the work whose investment is more than 2.3 billion dollars to move to a production of more than two million tons per year of pulp at the Horcones plant .
The commune of Arauco has already lived its first weekend of quarantine and is preparing for the second in Phase 2, which means Map construction must stop, something that Kimber described as “a problem, but they are looking at a way to solve.”
The above, according to the manager, is a “delicate situation”, since only 1,200 of its workers are from the area, which is where the expansion of the pulp mill is being carried out, the rest live in other communes in the region. For this reason, during the weekend shifts were eliminated and only “critical people” were worked for the continuity of the work.
Despite the fact that, according to reports from the health authority, since the beginning of the pandemic the infections associated with the project have exceeded a thousand, the company and also the construction union have highlighted the health protocols and preventive measures of the covid-19 implemented.
To this was added in the last hours the Medical College, whose regional president, Germán Acuña, was at the task knowing the process in which they work to control infections and the spread of the virus, both in Arauco and in the contractor companies.
“Despite the fact that in every work group and in every task there can always be improvements, I am satisfied with this visit,” said Acuña.
According to the information provided by the company, they are currently applying about 5 thousand PCR tests weekly, with a positivity rate of less than 1%, a figure much lower than the regional and national average.
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