• starting up $45 million, 60% to secondary treatment
• starting up ECF hw, switching to TCF if they can find peroxide

• new chip handling system (CTS), commission next summer
• DCS for kiln and digester ; bleach plant and pulp machine year after
• 500,000 manhours safe working, accident, then another 500,000 manhours safe
• purchased kappa analyzer, in process of installing
• starting towards ISO 9002 certification

• installed BMH chip bin in B Mill
• installed Kajaani Kappa analyzer

• working on cogeneration project; also medium density fiberboard plant
• installing liquor line between mills; stock line being considered for next year
• will have bleach plant split 10-20% of time
• getting into bleached sack market
• dispersed technical group into mill, all persons working with production, benefits tremendous
• looking at ISO 14000
• one year lost time injury free at Intercon Mill, nine months at PG Milll; very proud of this record

• maintenance shutdown June 96, made changes to digester, new trim screens, outlet device, ability to add WL to steaming vessel for scale control
• found tube leaks in economizer, shut down 36 hours early
• June/95 ISO 9002 certification
• production records for July and August
• looking at environmental management system

• DCS on digester
• converting ClO₂ plant to Solvay from Mathieson process
• installing heat exchanger on ClO₂ to reduce chilling requirement, energy in bleach plant

• #2 pulp machine wetend upgrade
• #2 kamyr pin chip digester upgrade (DCS, cold blow, stock handling)
• continued reliability work on R8
• 12.5 gpl ClO₂ being produced
• looking into purchasing kappa analyzer for kappa factor control
• investigating use of precipitator catch and mud slurry for green liquor polymer replacement
• investigating lump breaker for kilns
• set an August production record
• looking into AQ and polysulphide trial

• installing M&D digester June,1996
• installing new trash screen
• making modifications to chemiwasher

• construction started on $57 million sawdust digester, 225 tpd, startup Nov/96
• completed first truck dump, installing new weigh scale
• proposing new chip screening system
• audited to ISO 9001-1994, considering on-line document control
• started work on ISO 14000 Environmental Management System

• installing DCS in digester Oct 95; standard deviation to go from 3.5 to 2.0
• Cogen boiler startup planned for end of 96
• study to expand mill from 550 to 750 t, then 950 t, construction phase 1 starts May 96, 23 months schedule
• no production increase required on ClO₂ generator
• adding O₂ delignification with Mg base
• finished installing pin chip recovery system - saving 7 t/d for digester
• installing hog boiler electrostatic precipitator by end of 95
• set production record of 618 t/d daily; make 500 t/d monthly

• starting up Do pH control system using sulphuric acid; startup Sep 95
• reconfiguring C bleach plant, giving up Papricycle for a bleach pre-washer Oct 95; will be ECF fulltime
• MgSO₄ system spring/96
• expect appproval for improved A bleach plant scrubbing Spring/96
• looking at chip thickness screening 90 units/hr, expecting approval to start Nov 95
• working on proposal for new Steam and Recovery island, 1 RB, old RB to PB, install TG 35 MW $225, s/d 2 rb, 4 pb; possible approval Nov 95
• planning for 1996 mini O₂ for C bleach plant, similar to B bleach plant system 2 yrs ago

• ordered Corrudec drum to replace Do washer
• started bar chip thickness screening (recent disc screens did not work well), so far hasn’t helped
• considering an AQ trial next year
• considering a 500 t storage tank so newsmill can use slush, not dried pulp
• looking at pulp machine scanner

• DCS on digester, DCS on ClO₂ generator plant, DCS with advanced controls in the bleach plant
• construction underway on new 800 tonne bleached high density, new knotters, screening, washing, MC O₂ delignification and post washing
• new evaporator, steam stripping of foul condensates,limekiln upgrade - environmentally driven
• complete by May/96
• expecting further announcements

• finishing secondary treatment Nov 95; 4.5 km from mill
• developing eng for new evaporators (bottleneck)
• installing digester DCS (Fisher-Provox)
• replacing R8 generator reboiler next week (30/130 tubes blocked)

• installed 8 thou slot barrier screens in A mill, ran very well, attempting to run without quaternary screen; wore them out in 3 weeks in B mill, insufficient capacity, removed while considering next move
• recaust upgrade (green liquor stabilization tank, stacked causticizer, dregs filter, white liquor filter), should start up in near future

• installing SMC ClO₂ generator off gas analyzer
• rebuilding washers E1, D1 upgrade 96, may bypass W35 for wash stage
• rebuilding Solvay design ClO₂ plant in 1996,14.5 t/d design, now get 18.5, should get 22 t/d

• on strike
• using enzymes since 1991
• AQ trial was successful
• trying to meet 1 kg/t AOX
• B mill running ECF, trying to get A mill ECF with low Cl₂ multiple (.22 to .16, reduced AOX by 50%)
• future - kappa analyzer, screening modifications to handle shives due to ECF bleaching

Stone-Consolidated, Wayagamack

• new bs washers approved, also screen line to reduce BOD load to secondary treatment plant
• proposing to change QPHH bleach plant to ECF ODEoD for 96/97, semibleached pulp
• installed wet scrubber on recovery boiler two months ago

• elcetrostatic precipitator on power boiler in Oct 95
• DCS in evaporator area
• dabbling in AQ and H₂O₂ (concerned with photoactivity)
• working on $400 million expansion

• purchasing a kappa analyzer
• preliminary O₂ delignification stage on one year from now
• pursuing effluent flow reduction plan to reduce load to activated sludge plant
• started construction on weak sulphite liquor storage tank

• $100 million expansion including O₂ delignification
• also includes debottlenecking, evaporator & recovery work, convert Do to MC, add new brown high density storage with MC discharge
• completion target 1997
• soda ash trial, successful, 100% replacement in Papricycle, 50% in extraction, did it because caustic was not available, cost effective in big mill, but not in small mill because of retention time; not currently using because of supply problems; evaluating cost effectiveness

• approval to spend $11 million to convert R3 to R8/R10 (May/96), and convert Dc stage to dynamic mixers, go from 3% to 4.5 % consistency
• installing MC pump in D₂ stage this year
• installing MC pump in E₂ stage next year
• permanent retention time measurement system in brown high density for enzymes by Iogen

• expanded Louisiana and other plants, will be one of biggest suppliers in North America

• double plant capacity at Gibbons, AL , one year behind schedule, complete fall/96

• construction started on 5000 mt tankfarm in Quebec City , peroxide to be received from Belgium Jan/96
• 40000 mt to 60000 mt capacity coming on stream in Quebec in 1997, site TBA

• 140 million lbs expansion in Texas H₂O₂, Jan 97, from 88 million to over 200 million
• Netherlands H₂O₂ coming on in 1996, for import to Canada

• some sw mills in Eastern Canada could benefit from simplified bleaching, some in west too

• TCF study for Cellardennes Belgium - TCF on back burner, ECF for now
• doing study for Mallette, conversion to low odor RB