Our Kraft Pulp Mills
Canfor operates three mills in Prince George, the geographic
center of British Columbia. The mills, known as Intercontinental
Pulp, Prince George Pulp & Paper and Northwood Pulp
are operated under common management, share a common
chip furnish, and are registered under ISO 9001 and
ISO 14001 management systems. We are also joint owners
of the Howe Sound Limited Partnership mill on the coast
of British Columbia
Prince George, Intercontinental and Northwood mills
These mills have highly sophisticated distributed control
systems, Kamyr continuous digesters, and modern bleaching
and screening systems. Bleaching is carried out with
chlorine dioxide, oxygen and hydrogen peroxide resulting
in environmentally superior softwood ECF pulps. The
Intercontinental mill is also equipped with an oxygen
delignification system which results in very low levels
of chlorinated organics in the effluent.
The fibre supply to the mills is predominantly lodgepole
pine and white spruce. Over 90% of the chip supply is
sawmill residuals. Due to our climatic condition –
cold winters and relatively short dry summers –
these species develop long, slender and thin-walled
fibres. These fibre properties produce a pulp with excellent
tensile reinforcing properties, ideally suited for a
wide variety of the most demanding papermaking applications.
Howe Sound mill
Canfor and Oji Paper Co. Ltd. are co-owners of the
Howe Sound mill. It is located on the coast of BC, about
55 km from Vancouver, and produces 348,000 t of northern
softwood kraft pulp and 208,000 t of Newsprint. The
mill was virtually completely rebuilt in 1990, and has
a single Kamyr MCC digester, 2 stage oxygen delignification
and ECF bleaching. The newsprint machine at the mill
is by Valmet and uses a TMP/kraft pulp furnish.
The fibre supply to the Howe Sound mill is from the
coastal regions of BC and from the southern regions
of the interior. Fibres include Douglas fir, hemlock,
cedar and spruce/pine. The pulps we produce have been
specially tailored to meet the needs of papermakers
worldwide, and the fibre blends are precisely controlled
to ensure that their quality is consistent.
Fibre supply
All of the forest areas where Canfor operates have
had their environmental management systems registered
under the ISO 14001 standard. In addition all of the
area-based forest tenures have been certified under
the Canadian Sustainable Forest Management standard
(CSA Z809). The Prince George area volume based tenures
have been certified under the Susstainable Forestry
Initiative (SFI). We currently have 63% of the areas
where we operate (4.86 million ha.) under SFM certification,
and have plans for this number to reach 90% by 2004.
Click here for more information
on SFM certification
Quality
All of our mills have their quality policies registered
under the ISO9001 standard. The staff at all of our
mills are committed to providing excellence in all of
our products and services.
Diversity in quality products
The products which we produce possess unique properties,
which are highly valued by papermakers world-wide. These
unique attributes arise directly from the combination
of climatic conditions and species types, making forest
products from BC highly prized raw materials for papermaking.
These unique natural advantages when coupled with Canfor's
advanced pulp processing technology, mean that we offer
what is probably the most diverse range of high quality
softwood kraft pulps on the market today! Click
here for more information on our range of market pulps.
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