Equipment Wood Plant Dry Woodroom: Chip Unloaders: 2 2,500 t/d Radar Chip Handling: 1 Acrowood Thickness/Belts Sawdust Handling: 1 Chip Storage: 1 30,000 t Chip Consumption: 1,700 t/d Roundwood Consumption: 198,000 t/y Debarkers: 2 198,000 1-Rand drum Bark Press: 1 270 t/24h Horton Chipper: 1 Carthage 104” 15-knife Pulping Equipment Groundwood Grinders: 6 60 t/d Koehring Waterous/ Great Northern Stock Preparation Plant - Groundwood Mill Primary Screens: 4 125 t/d Cowen open discharge Secondary Screens: 1 100 t/d Cowen open discharge Thickeners: 2 200 t/d Impco disc Centricleaners: 450 t/d Hymac, Bauer, Celleco Presses: 1 125 t/d Thune 45L Shredders: 1 Jeffrey Refiners: 2 50 t/d Bauer 411 & 412 double rotary disc Cutter Layboy: 1 Hymac 100 t/d Bleaching Sequence : 1 Single stage P Pulping Equipment Sulphite Digesters: 8 batch Stebbins; 4 8,043 ft3.; 2 7,884 ft3; 2 8,439 ft3 Knotters: 2 Hooper PSV-N 400 + 2 Noss Raditrim Secondary Knotter Screens Knotter Receipt Refining + Recycle Washers: 3 Impco/CV, 900 ADT (short) Primary Screens: 6 150 t/d C.I.R. pressure Secondary Screens: 2 150 t/d C.I.R. pressure Third Screens: 1 150 t/d C.I.R. pressure Fourth Screens: 3 Jonsson screens Thickener: 1 Impco/CV Bleaching Stages: 4 500 t/d tile lined towers Pulp Dryers: 1 200 t/d Hymac wet lap 50% Process Control Systems: Fisher Rosemount Delta-V Bleach Plant Process Stages: 5 900 t/d Bleaching Sequence:EMg0 - Do- Ep-DHWashers: 4 Rauma, Dorr-Oliver, Sherbrooke Towers: 7 Thorne, Stebbins, Rauma-Repola Mixers: 4 Dc IR Hi Shear Ahlmix Chlorine Dioxide Plant: 1 Lundberg-Solvay 17-t/d capacity Cleaners: 6-stage Celleco forward + 1 - stage Celleco reverse. Sudor Press & Frotepulpers: 3 - 250 ton each Recovery Plant Boilers: 1 B&W 2-drum Stirling, 1,100 t/d liquor burning capacity; cogeneration boiler: 550,000 lb/h at 1,250 psi, 45 MW Evaporators: 6-body, 5-effect SSL AquaChem falling film, 143,925 ppm at 58% Precipitators: 2 2 fields Flakt Canada Process Control System: ABB Recovery Boiler: 1 B & W, 368,000 lb/h at 1,250 psi (950o F) Boiler Cogen: 550,000 lb/h at 1,250 psi Power Plant Power Boilers: 220,000 lb/h Combustion Engineering + 150,000 lb/h hog fuel Amount Purchased: 50-60 MW NBEPC
Water Consumption: 10-12 Mgal/d Water Source: Madawaska River Process Control Systems: Rosemount DCS Effluent/Pollution Control Clarifiers: 1 5 MUSgal/d Eimco Sludge Disposal: Incineration Sludge Presses: 1 FKC, 45 t/d Settling Pond: 1 20 M gallons Aerators: 16 Aqua-Jet, 75 hp: Fine bubble tube aerators, 5 blowers, 2 Praxair Pure 02
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. Head Office
Address: 501-858 Beatty St Vancouver BC V6B 1C1 Tel: 604 895-2700, Fax: 604 681-6061 Website: www.westfraser.com History: West Fraser originated in 1955 as a lumber planning business in Quesnel, B.C. From 1955 to 1979 the business expanded in Western Canada through the acquisition of sawmills and related harvesting rights. In 1979 the company established Quesnel River Pulp as a joint venture, which became wholly-owned in 2002. In the following decade it acquired Eurocan Pulp & Paper located in Kitimat, B.C. and in the mid-1990’s the company acquired Slave Lake Pulp in northern Alberta. In 2004, through the acquisition of Weldwood of Canada Ltd., West Fraser acquired Hinton Pulp in Alberta and a 50% joint venture interest in Cariboo Pulp & Paper in Quesnel, B.C.
Personnel
VP: Gerry Miller Exec Chairman: Hank Ketcham Pres/CEO: Ted Seraphim VP Pulp Energy: Peter Rippon
Hinton Pulp Mill
Address: 760 Switzer Dr Hinton AB T7V 1V7 Tel: 780 865-2251, Fax: 780 865-8538
Personnel
Controller/Hum Res Mgr: Garry Power DCS/Instr Supt: D Pors Cust Serv Supt: J Boese IS Mgr: L Shone Prod Mgr: James Richardson Mmgt Asst: Chris Dalziel Mtce Supt: Bruce MacDonald Chief Forester Alberta: Jim Lelacheur Gen Mgr: Brian Grantham Pwr/Recov Mgr: John Wilson Mtce Mgr: Gary Sitar Env Supt: G Start Mtce Supt: M Inman OH&S Supt: G Mullen Ops Supt: P Kapronlzai Elec Supt: D Boese Total Employees: 305 ISO Quality Registration: 9001-2008; 140002004
Production Capacity Pulp: 1100 t/d Equipment Pulp Mill Digester: 2 vessel Kamyr hydraulic for MCC cooking Blow Tanks: 250 adt Knotters: 2 Ingersoll-Rand Hi-Q primary, 2 Jonsson secondary Washers: 4 stages of brownstock, 2-stages of Ingersoll-Rand vacuum filters, 2-stages Sunds wash press Screens: 3 stage brownstock screening, Ingersoll-Rand model 212D centrisorters Oxygen Delignification: Sunds MC system Brownstock Storage: 450 adt Bleach Plant: DEop (DnD), 3-stages of washing CIO2 Plant: 25 t/d R-8 Albright & Wilson Bleached Storage: 300 adt Bleached Cleaning: 2 systems, 5-stage Noss AM 80 centrifugal cleaners Pulp Machines: 1 Black-Clawson fourdrinier and press section, Flakt dryer 160” dry trim Recovery Boilers: 2 2.4 and 2.7 Mlb dry solid CE low odour Evaporators: 2 1 - Envirotech 6-effect plus 2 concentrators; 1 - HPD 5-effect falling film plus crystalizer Lime Kiln: Ahlstrom 12’ 6” dia. x 374’ Recausticizing: Eimco, green liquor reactor clarifiers, pressure filters for white liquor clarification and mud washing Steam Plant Power Generation: Self sufficient, 20 and 30 MW 600/180/80 turbogenerators General Electric. Power Boilers: 2 Foster Wheeler gas boilers, 1 CE hog fuel boiler - converted recovery boiler Source: Athabasca River, Arctic Ocean watershed, Eimco reactor clarifier, softening, mixed bed filtration, supplies town with chlorinated and fluoridated drinking water. Water Supply Primary Treatment: 200’ clarifier Secondary Treatment: 6.5 day ASAB with 2475 hp floating aerators, also treats town sewage
Slave Lake Pulp Mill
Address: PO Box 1790 Slave Lake AB T0G 2A0 Tel: 780 849-7777, Fax: 780 849-7725 History: The mill started up in December 1990.
Personnel
Mill Mgr: Rod Albers Woodlands Mgr: G Sanders Controller: J Waldron Mtce Mgr: J St-Pierre Buyer: Gart Wolstenholme Tech Mgr: Paul DiJulio Mech Mtce Supvr: Ken Strandlund Shift Supvr: Antonio Doucet Electrical/Instrumentation: Stephen Kay Ops Coord: Lorne Olson
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