Ence Energía y Celulosa, S.A. simply known as Ence (), is a Spanish multinational company that develops and supplies technologies, automation systems and services for the

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, paper and energy industries. The production of

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(pulp from

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) at its factories in

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and Navia makes it the European leader in the manufacture of

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cellulose. Ence is also the leading Spanish company in the production of

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with biomass agroforestry. It generates energy from its plants in

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, Mérida,

Ciudad Real Ciudad Real (, ; en, "Royal City") is a municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha, capital of the province of Ciudad Real. It is the 5th most populated municipality in the region. History It was founde ...

, Jaén and

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. In addition, until November 2020 it also produced

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through its 50 megawatt Termollano plant, located in the town of

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, which was subsequently sold. Ence is also the main private forest manager in Spain. Between 1950 and its listing on the

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in 1990, it was a publicly-owned company linked to the former

Instituto Nacional de Industria Instituto Nacional de Industria (INI, National Institute of Industry) was a Spanish state-owned financing and industrial holding company established in Francoist Spain for the development of industry and social control. It was succeeded by the Soc ...

(INI). It was formerly called the "Compañía Nacional de Celulosa". It changed its name to Grupo Ence after its

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in 1990. Firstly, 49% was privatized, and in 2001 the remaining 51%. It was part of

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twice: between January 1995 and January 1997, and between December 2018 and September 2020. The headquarters of the company are located in

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. Altogether, Ence's pulp production in 2019 was 1,200,000 tons of pulp, of which most of it was exported to countries in Northern Europe. The company also generated 1,908 Gigawatt hours of electricity, resulting from the combustion of biomass, not

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