Finishing / Paper Warehouse / Shipping

This area is responsible for weighing, wrapping, labelling and storing our finished paper rolls, as well as
the shipping of rolls out by rail or truck to our customers.. Here is how our fully automated wrapline works.

Rolls leave the Paper Machine Winder complete with barcodes and head downstairs to the finishing line and paper warehouse.

Exiting the automatic "lowerator", the bar code is automatically scanned as the roll "rolls" by. The wrapline computers then know which customer the roll is destined to, and what the diameter width and length of the roll should be.

Roll width and diameter is double checked against the customer order and ANC specifications. Simultaneously, the TAPPI (Serial #) of the roll is stencilled on both ends

The rolls' width and diameter determines what size and length wrapper to use.

Our characteristic blue band is applied to the top and bottom of the roll to help protect the edges in our warehouse and during shipping (beside it makes the rolls look really good!).

Determined by the roll diameter, the proper size "head" is automatically placed on each end of the roll. Our blue band is then tucked over top.

An outer head and vapour barrier is then applied using heat and glue, sealing the package.

A high quality thermal transfer label is then printed automatically and placed face down, glue up on a conveyor. The conveyor goes out to the centre of where the roll is, the roll is released, and the weight of the roll applies the label!

Rolls are then weighed one more time, and automatically "upended", onto a conveyer.

Rolls are placed in our paper warehouse by clamp trucks with laptops connected to our inventory and shipping system by a Wireless Computer Network,. (These "rugged" laptops are the same model used in Police Cars).

Trucks back into our enclosed Warehouse, whey they are loaded with newsprint rolls.

We also ship by rail, with box cars being brought inside the warehouse to load. (image © CN Rail)