Thursday, October 4, 2012

Port Hawkesbury Paper Rolls Off Machine


http://pulp-paperworld.com/index.php/usa/canadian-news/item/3048-point-tupper-paper-rolls-again.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The first roll off the supercalendered paper machine at 1:11a.m. on Wednesday, a major milestone for the Point Tupper mill many once left for dead. "We're very, very happy we did because we have customers with orders that want to run that paper on Monday", Marc Dube, the mills restructing manager, said in a telephone interview Wednesday. They ran the first 12 hours without a paper break according to Dube.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/10/01/ns-mill-workers.html?cmp=rss
Clouds of steam billow from the Port Hawkesbury paper mill in Point Tupper. The mill hopes to produce paper early this week for the first time in about a year. There's a sense of relief in Cape Breton, N.S. as mill workers excitedly head back to work to make paper, says the union representing employees at Port Hawkesbury Paper.
 "The fact that the last number of days that we've seen pulp trucks coming into the mill and we haven't seen that in a long time heading this direction. I sense a public that's at ease now."