PAGE TWO StepBy- -Step BRIGHT CLOUDS and ld py ae the com- Bey, compen, 20 0 acres of forest land in the Columbia Valley. The licence extends for some 200 miles just above the mill to Mica Creek in a series of lumbia River provides water transportation downwards to the mills, and the majority of the timber lies with- in a 15-mile distance of the water. Celgar’s in- vestment in w sawmill and pulp’ mills totals about $50,000,- 000. Millions of dollars will.be spent anni Sanually with 20 tire cent of fais e: endl ure expecte tobe c. Burther payrolls, taxes and freight. The Celgar mill site comprises 80 acres and is located 2.5 miles west of Castlegar on the south bank of the Columbia River. Security of timber sup- py was the chief factor selection of a plant site near Castlegar. The allowable annual cut. of Celgar’s Tree Farm Licence is 30 mil- lion cubic feet. When operating at full capac- ity, the pulp mill will © produce 175,000 tons of pulp; annually and will use about 276,000 cu- nits of wood. The saw- mill will produce about THE CELGAR STORY Diagram Of Huge Celgar Operation 74 million board feet of lumber and will use about 116,000 cunits of sawlogs, Combined re- quirements of the pulp mill and sawmill wil be 392,000 cunits of which 300,000 will come from the TFL, Of the licence area, 370,000 acres are considered imma ture timber (under 120 years old), and 450,000 acres are mature tim- ber. THE CELGAR STORY Years Of Exploration And Study Ll? PAGE THRE! q Before Celgar Decided On Site Celgar Limited is a subsidiary of Columbia Cellulose Company, Limited which has operated a dissolving and mealy sulphite pulp mill at Prin Corporation of America, two companies buy much of the Prince Rupert production for the manufacture of textiles, chemi- cals and plastics. The head office of both Co- lumbia Cellulose and Celgar is in the Burrard Building, 1030 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, ARROW LAKES EI Ia 1952 Celgar je sawmilling interests in Arrow Lakes region of British the pulp mill pro; onlerway, Celgar toads ed a nucleus of trained personnel wbo. were fetiled in the region, kn fae are provincial g¢ hig ne gives oe the company the int HT Hill 5g eg jumbia River basin in a seric blocks between C: bia River from Castlegar, community with a population of about 1900 persons situated on the Columbia River at the foot of the Arrow Lakes, These lakes extend for about 100 miles north- ward as a wide, slow-running portion of the river. soars the lakes are a further 100 miles of the Columbia River which are system forms the basis of the Company's log transportation, The logging headquarters are situated at Nakusp, on the Upper Arrow Lake. Revelstoke will also be a centre for logging . opera- tions in the northern bl The City of Revelstoke has a Population of about 3,500 and with the surrounding area in- cluded, 5,500. Nakusp has about 1,200 people, FOREST UTILIZATION With Neatly 4 per cent of the wood from the Tree Farm Licence will be suitable for sawlogs with the balance going i into pulpwood. Cel is the first pulp mill ott Frnclinyd in Bri- lume ction from a single-line operation, ‘The designed: capa- city is 500 tons of bleached kraft away. Limestone deposits -exist PULP MILL MANAGER ENGENE DE LUCA, pulp mill manager of Celgar- Limited, is He m in Montreal and graduated from the University of Toronto as a chemical engineer in 1937, He has 20 years of experience in kraft pulp manufacturing, sales and sulphite dissolving pulps, with Canadian Interna- tional Paper Co., Fraser Com- panies Ltd., Irving Pulp and Paper Company Ltd., and Alas- ka Pine and Cellulose Company Ltd. Mr, DeLuca was division manager for Electric Reduc- tion Company, ‘North Vancou- ver, at the time he joined Cel- gar CCC VICE-PRESIDENT PENNEY, appointed ex- cative vice-president of Col- umbia Cellulose Company, Lim- ited, in April of 1961, previous- ly held the position of vice- president, pulp manufacturing. Mr. Penney graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in chemical engineer- ing in 1937, He then joined the bleached kraft pulp mill of the Brown Corporation in La Tu- que, Quebec, where he became gereral superintendent, After five years of war service in th Engineering Division of the Cinadian Army, be became rranager of pulp: and paper n anufacturing in the sulphate and sulphite ‘pulp and paper he joined Coiumabia Cel Cellulose and Celgar ip 1956. locally, process water and elec- trical power are abundant, and steam will be generated by the recovery boiler and by using hogged fuel supplemented with to be taken from trucks and rail cars in the same man- ner. Bundles are broken down on pe This arrangement permits logs into one of two combinations of ring-type barker and horizontal chipper. DRAW CHIPS Two chip storage silos draw from the wood- will prodcce chips as a by- Preduet, Two Kamyr continuous diges- ters have been installed and these, together with the latest worl oxidation and scrubbing tech- , will keep odour to the ieee Possible level. Five-stage chlorine, top quality product. The single dryer is of the Flakt airborne type which transports the pulp sheet on jets of warm air rather than on moving parts. The fin- ished pulp will be shipped pri- marily. by rail in bales to the U,S. market, although shipments pi ak lade ar ac FINISHED PRODUCT—Pure whi ave slrenty, boosie sbz Ruper bold by Columbia Pulp Sales: subsidiary sales organization’ of Columbia Cellulose. Because of the tree species which grow im the Interior for- sets andthe climatic ditter ences of this region from stal British Columbia, the fibre characteristics of the wood re- desirable for. paper pulp pre- duction. Studies which formed the basis of Celgar’s ‘decision to go ahead Limited. joined the Chemcell group of companies in 1953, He came to Vancouver early in 1957 as executive vice-presi- dent of Columbia Cellulose and Celgar and was appointed pres- ident of those companies in April, 1956. Mr, Beaupre was born in Montreal and graduat- ed from McGill ‘in 191. He served overseas as an officer of the Canadian Army, and fol- lowing the war he entered red gov- with the Department of De- fence production.’ With the Jal pe (at right of picture) and the airborne Flakt ar. This process drains, presses and dries the finished »: ite Kraft is seen going through the fourdrinier er (upper left) at Cel+ is then autg- fhatically cut and baled for storage and shipment, Ce igar Kraft has bursting strength characteristics approaching those o! typical Northern Krafts, ts, and a beating time resin istance Sp poening those.of typical West Coast Kraft rior to both. These features “together with good printability indicate that f Brot ys operations of wa Company Celgar Kraft is already among the best in North America. Berlin, New Hampshire where i sp: Z : ut os em