Canfor operates the Howe Sound mill on the coast of
British Columbia. The mill is a joint venture with Oji
Paper, and produces both newsprint and kraft pulps.
The mill has had its management systems registered under
the ISO 9001 (quality) and ISO 14001 (environmental)
management standards.
The mill has access to a wide variety of high quality
wood types, ranging from the high coarseness Douglas
fir to the extremely fine cedar. The majority of this
supply is the residual material from local sawmills.
Howe Sound was rebuilt in 1990, and as a result is one
of the worlds most modern pulp mills. It has highly
sophisticated distributed control systems, a twin vessel
continuous MCC digester, and modern bleaching and screening
systems. All bleaching is done with chlorine dioxide,
oxygen and hydrogen peroxide resulting in strong, clean
ECF pulps, with superior environmental characteristics.
The mill is also equipped with double stage oxygen delignification
system that results in extremely low levels of chlorinated
organic compounds in the effluent.
HS440 is a carefully controlled blend of western red
cedar and western hemlock. This combination of slender,
flexible cedar fibres and hemlock fibres with their
balanced tear/tensile properties produces a distinctive
softwood pulp, with excellent reinforcing strength,
and exceptionally low porosity. It is produced by precise
metering of the cedar and hemlock, to achieve the properties
described on our Typical Property Sheet.
