About
A lean, senior team, with more than 30 years in process plants
The ProHolz leadership team has implemented five new plants and has experience in six sectors of the process industry, with engineering bases in Ponta Grossa and Concordia.
FIG 01 Exhaust towers under erection · Guararapes MDF 3, Santa Catarina, Brazil
The company
Engineering and management of industrial plants
ProHolz Engenharia engineers industrial plants and carries out project management. We work on new plants as well as on expansions, modernizations and upgrades of operating plants, with experience in wood and panels; pulp, paper and packaging; energy and cogeneration; pellets and biomass; food and beverage; and chemicals and cement.
In engineering, we work from the conceptual study to detailed engineering, with process and layout, piping and mechanical, steel structures and civil, electrical and automation, utilities and fire protection in the same 3D model. The model coordinates the interfaces between disciplines and with equipment suppliers, and the 2D deliverables come out of it: plan drawings, isometric drawings, bills of materials, and fabrication and erection drawings. In existing plants, the starting point is a laser scan, which gives the project the actual geometry of what was built.
Project management follows PMI methodology. Every document has a controlled number, revision and history, from first issue to as-built, so that the client, the suppliers and the site always work from the same version. Depending on the project, ProHolz works under an EPCM, owner's engineering or value engineering model.
Consulting supports the decision before the project is contracted: investment planning, assessment of existing plants and equipment, and the search for alternative technologies.
ProHolz engineers and manages; procurement and construction stay with the client.
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More than
30years
of combined leadership experience in process plants
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About
10years
of operation as ProHolz
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Projects in
7countries
in South America and North America
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Engineering from
2bases
Ponta Grossa (PR, Brazil) and Concordia (Entre Ríos, Argentina)
Panel industry
In the panel industry, a track record since 1991
MDF, MDP (particleboard) and OSB, with the resin plants and finishing lines that come with them.
- 8
- continuous presses
- 10
- melamine lines
- 6
- paper impregnation lines
- 3
- resin and formaldehyde lines
- 4
- woodyards implemented and managed, with multiple outfeeds
Track record in panels
Panel projects since 1991, led by the team before and during the ProHolz era
Before ProHolz
- 1991Resin plant, Argentina
- 1994PB (particleboard), Argentina
- 1995MDF, Argentina
- 1996Resin plant, Argentina
- 2000MDF, Ponta Grossa (PR), Brazil
- 2001OSB, Ponta Grossa (PR), Brazil
- 2002MDF, Argentina
- 2005MDF, Cabrero, Chile
- 2009MDP, Montenegro (RS), Brazil
- 2014MDF, Mexico
- 2015MDF, Canada
ProHolz era
- 2015 to 2018Placas do Brasil, MDF, Espírito Santo, Brazil
- 2019 to 2023Guararapes, MDF, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Since 2023Sudati, MDF, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Since 2024Chilepanel, OSB expansion and pellet plant, Chile
- Since 2025Louisiana Pacific, OSB, Argentina
Other sectors
Beyond panels, the whole plant and five other sectors
The same team engineers the plant's support areas and plants in other sectors of the process industry.
- Energy and cogeneration
- Power plants from 3 to 30 MW running on residues and biomass, 3 cogeneration turbines implemented and substations from 69 to 230 kV, with management of the client's procurement. 5 MW biomass cogeneration at LatAm Forest and, at Chilepanel, a 17 MW thermal plant with an ORC turbine rated at 2 MW electrical.
- Pellets and biomass
- Pellet plant projects from 30,000 to 120,000 t/year in Brazil, Chile and Paraguay, including LatAm Forest in Rio Grande (RS), Brazil, in 2018, and Chilepanel in La Unión, the largest of them. A 585,000 t/year port wood chip plant.
- Pulp, paper and packaging
- Kraft island integration, machine foundations and an effluent treatment plant revamp. In 2018, the new paper cup plant for BO Packaging in Ponta Grossa (PR), Brazil.
- Food and beverage
- A malting plant and sanitary process plants. In 2025 and 2026, detailed engineering of the stainless steel piping for the syrup room of a beverage plant in Paraná, Brazil.
- Chemicals and cement
- Petrochemicals, calciner conversion and industrial minerals.
- Utilities
- Utility islands and MVR effluent evaporation.
Mission, vision and values
What guides our work
Mission
To deliver the complete engineering of the industrial plant: from market research and scenario assessment to the technical sizing of the equipment, taking the seasonality of production into account.
Vision
To be the benchmark in engineering and consulting for industry in Latin America.
Values
Ethics and respect for standards, with care for every client project.
Team
The team expands on each project, with dedicated specialists
- Leadership
- More than 30 years of combined experience in process plants.
- Multidisciplinary team
- Process, piping, structural, civil, electrical and automation engineering, expanded on each project with dedicated specialists.
- Project management
- Schedule, costs, technical evaluation of supplier bids and construction monitoring, following PMI methodology.
- Field supervisors
- Experienced in plant implementation projects, they travel wherever the site requires.
Bases
Two engineering bases, projects in seven countries
- Brazil
- Ponta Grossa, PR. The team's engineering base in Brazil.
- Argentina
- Concordia, Entre Ríos. Engineering base in Argentina, with its own website: proholz.com.ar.
- Countries with projects
- Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Mexico and Canada.
Contact
New plant, expansion or modernization: tell us what needs to be engineered
A technical conversation defines the scope, the disciplines and the engagement model: EPCM, owner's engineering or value engineering.