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Fully Bleached Softwood Pulp

Fully bleached Pulps from our Interior Mills

Canfor operates three mills in Prince George, the geographic center of British Columbia. The mills, known as Northwood, Intercontinental and Prince George are operated under common management, share a common chip furnish, and are each registered under the ISO 9001 (quality) and ISO 14001 (environmental) management standards.

Our fibre supply is a blend of white spruce (picea glauca), lodgepole pine (pinus contorta) and alpine fir (abies lasiocarpa). The majority of this supply is the residual material from local sawmills. Due to the climatic conditions in the region - long cold winters and relatively short dry summers - these species naturally develop long, slender and thin-walled fibres. These fibre properties result in pulp that not only has excellent tensile strength properties, but also offers superior wet web reinforcement and sheet dimensional stability.

All of our mills have highly sophisticated distributed control systems, continuous digesters, and modern bleaching and screening systems. Bleaching is done with chlorine dioxide, oxygen and hydrogen peroxide resulting in environmentally superior ECF pulps. The Intercontinental mill is also equipped with an oxygen delignification system that results in extremely low levels of chlorinated organic compounds in the effluent.

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Key pulp properties

Typical end uses

High initial tensile strength

ULWC and SC grades

High refined tensile strength

Mechanical Publication papers

High reinforcement index

Light weight specialities

Ease of refining

Tissue and towel

Low OX/AOX

 

Lodgepole Pine

White Spruce

Alpine Fir