Helsinki-listed speciality-chemicals group supplying Portugal's pulp & paper mills (Navigator, Altri) with process chemicals, and Portuguese municipal and industrial water-treatment customers with coagulants and flocculants.
Kemira Oyj (HEX: KEMIRA), founded in 1920 and headquartered in Helsinki, is one of Europe's leading speciality-chemicals groups serving the pulp & paper and water-intensive industries. Portugal is a meaningful market: the country's eucalyptus-based pulp sector — led by The Navigator Company and Altri — is one of the largest in Europe, and Kemira supplies the process chemicals (retention, sizing, strength, bleaching) that enable those Portuguese mills to compete on both cost and environmental performance.
On the water side, Kemira sells coagulants (polyaluminium chloride, ferric sulphate) and polymers into Portuguese municipal water and wastewater utilities as well as industrial customers with their own effluent treatment — a relevant market as Portugal works through EU-funded wastewater infrastructure upgrades under the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
Portugal's pulp industry is investing in bleaching-line upgrades and decarbonisation, while Portuguese water utilities need to absorb new EU urban wastewater directive requirements through 2030. Both trends create recurring demand for the chemistries Kemira specialises in — and Nordic suppliers with a track record in Scandinavian pulp and Nordic water utilities bring a directly relevant reference book to Portuguese customers.
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