My name is Kavitha, and I am an undergraduate student at York University. I am writing my thesis on the effect of pulp effluents on the environment. I would be much obliged if you would send me any information pertaining to this topic. To answer your questions , I would like to refer you to the our online brochures entitled Facts On Paper Making,and Facts on Environmental Affairs which may be found in the Facts on the Company section of the website. Also, the following publications may be of use: PULP & PAPER CANADA (A Technical Publication of the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association- ISSN 0316-4004) PULP AND PAPER MANUFACTURE Second Edition, Vol 1 "The Pulping of Wood" Editors: Ronald G. MacDonald , John N. Franklin McGraw Hill Book Company CHEMICAL RECOVERY IN THE ALKALINE PULPING PROCESSES A Project of the Alkaline Pulping Committee of the Pulp Manufacture Division Edited by Gerald Hough Tappi Press, Atlanta Georgia PULP BLEACHING: Principles and Practice Carlton W. Dence College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Retired State University of New York Syracuse, NY, USA and Douglas W. Reeve Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry Pulp & Paper Centre University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Tappi Press Atlanta , Georgia (1996) Kelly Honeyman - Naturalist, J. D. Irving, Limited (Woodlands) I am trying to set up a recyled paper mill in Canmore Alberta. The paper is hand pulled and made with only recycled materials. The paper products are unique. What advice do you have in terms of gaining support for a business? I have looked night after night for hand made paper mills ( on the net). There seems to be no one out there as a small business. I'm afraid I can't offer much advice in terms of gaining support for a small business other than the usual routes of enlisting the help of your local chamber of commerce to help in advertising your product. On the east coast, the local YM-YWCA holds classes on entreprenurial skills and marketing. Does your area have a business developement commission? Although I don't know exactly know what your product is, I do have the name of a distributor of products who may be interested in recycled paper products. Her company had a line of handmade paper greeting cards with wildflower seeds embedded in them. Seemed like a good idea to me. Advertising 3000 Ltd. Gwen Savoie Moncton, NB Phone: 506-386-7706 Fax: 506-387-8067 Kelly Honeyman - Naturalist, J. D. Irving, Limited Has your company considered becomming FSC certified? Is your company ISO Certified? J.D. Irving, Limited is working towards having our forest lands certified. We have recently undergone a pilot certification audit for one of our forest units following the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) principles and criteria. We hope to make an announcement regarding this pilot certification land base within the next several months. Within the next two years we plan to have all of our forest lands certified under either the Canadian Standards Associations (CSA) or the FSC system, or both. At present an International Standards Organization (ISO) certification system for the forest lands has not yet been finalized. Several of our mills, however, have been certified according to the ISO 9000 process. Blake Brunsdon - Chief Forester, J. D. Irving, Limited (Woodlands) How long does it take for paper to be processed? At our paper mill, Irving Paper, production is largely a two part process. Very simply, one part of production is the converting of raw wood (in the form of chips) into separate wood fibers called pulp. This process is called pulping. The second part of the process is the pouring of this pulp onto a fast moving screen and through hot rolls (in a paper machine) to form a sheet of paper. The speed at which the paper machine operates (up to 50 kilometers per hour!) is faster than the pulping process can deliver pulp. To overcome the speed differences, and to allow blending of various types of pulp for different products, large storage tanks holding a total of 203,000 liters of pulp ( wood fiber 4% and water 96% ) are filled before the paper machine can operate at full speed. Theoretically, if pulping did not have to send the pulp to storage tanks, the wood chip would be transformed into part of a sheet of paper in a matter of minutes . In reality, for various reasons, this method is not practical. The entire process (including wrapping the paper rolls for shipping) can take from 6 to 12 hours. As this process is pretty much continuous though, the paper machines are always producing paper albeit from pulp made hours before. Mark Mosher/Terry Celeste - Engineering, Irving Paper Hi. My name is Amanda. I am doing a project on softwood in Exploring Technology class. How long does softwood live? Please answer my question. Thanxs. The number of different species of native softwood in the Maritimes is as diverse as the species of wildflowers growing along the roadsides. Each flower blooms at a different time of the growing season and each lives a different period of time. Trees are like this as well, as you can see from the following chart of general life expectancies for the Maritimes' most common softwoods: SPECIES LIFE EXPECTANCY White Spruce (Picea glauca) - 100-200 years Black Spruce (Picea mariana) - 150-250 Red Spruce (Picea rubens) - 250-350 Tamarack (Larix laricina) - 100-180 Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea) - 70-150 Jack Pine (Pinus banksiana) - 80-130 Red Pine (Pinus resinosa) - 150-200 White Pine (Pinus strobus) - 200-400 Eastern Cedar (Thuja occidentalis) - 150-350 Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) - 300-400 Kelly Honeyman - Naturalist, J. D. Irving, Limited (Woodlands) [ Back ] [ Next ]