Alberta Newsprint Company

Information at a glance..

• Employees : 211 full-time permanent (includes Woodlands and Sales).
• First Production : August, 1990.
• Power requirements : up to 125mw.
• Tonnes/day : 747 (average) Metric Tonnes/year : 269,000.
• Paper Machine Speed : average 1440 metres/minutes.
• Width of paper machine : 8.4 metres (330 inches).
• Basis Weights : 45.0 &48.8 gm/sq metre NEWSPRINT.
• Voith Paper Machine.
• Alberta's First (and still only) Paper Mill.
• TMP Refiners : 3 lines (Primary and Secondary), 1 Reject Refiner (Metso CD70 refiners).
• Tied for #1 - Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) Effluent Quality -integrated mill - 2000.
• State of-the-art environmental technology.
• Part of Alberta's 54,000 employee forest industry (AFPA figure).
• ForestCare certified - forestry & mill operations (recertified fall 2003).