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companies has successfully completed a test run of chlorine- free pulp at the second of three large pulp mills. Canadian Forest Products Ltd. ran the test at its Intercontinental pulp mill in Prince George last weekend, joining a select few companies worldwide to respond to growing calls in. Europe for more environmentally- friendly pulp.

LANDING A BIG ONE

Surrey-based Innovac Technology Inc. says it has shipped the world’s largest fish pump to a fish meal processing plant in Chile. The Transvac 6725 was based on the company’s earlier line of Transvac pumps and has a pumping capacity of 300 tonnes of fish per hour. The pump's twin tanks each hold 6,229 litres and measure 4.7 metres high.

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The company that makes most of the world’s jetliners believes the airline industry has started to bounce back after a year of “horrendous” losses. Boeing Commerecial Airplane Group said Wednesday the U.S. economy has “bottomed out” and predicts North American a c = recover to a four-

Wilf Sweeney looks back at a career in the pulp and paper

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Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER t must have been fate [e= dictated where Wilf Sweeney would be born.

“In that aspect, I’ve always been. associated with pulp mills,” he said.

The former general manager of the Celgar Pulp Co., Sweeney’s birthplace was Dryden, Ont., a pulp town that sits about halfway between Winnipeg and Thunder Bay on the Trans-Canada Highway.

From the day he was born to the day he retired last month, Sweeney has spent most of that time around a pulp mill.

Although his isn’t a story of family roots that go back many generations in the mill, Sweeney said he was conscious of the goings-on at a pulp mill.

“I certainly was aware of what they did,” he said.

After spending life through high school in Dryden, Sweeney said good-bye to his family and Ontario and headed west to B.C.

He hooked up with CP Rail, and worked the line between Field and Kamloops installing telegraph poles.

But through dissatisfaction with management, he left the railroad and headed to Vancouver, eventually landing a job with Brittania Mining and Smelter. c

It was there that the young Sweeney did some _ soul searching, and whether a mine was really where he belonged.

“That really got me thinking,” he said. “Mines have a finite life, when the ore runs out that’s it.”

So, rather than worry about what would happen when the ore did run out, Sweeney made a decision.

“I thought I’d better get back to school,” he said, and returned | to Dryden in January of 1948.

His timing couldn’t have been better, as a disaster at the mine shortly after he left claimed the lives of three co-workers in his

sector. With his thoughts set on an engineering career, Sweeney

Settling into retirement

than they were in 1952.

With a career in the pulp and paper industry now be’

his golf game. Though his years in the business numbered 40, he says things today aren't much different

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hind him, Wilf Sweeney has a lot more time to work on

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made plans to attend either the University of B.C. or University of Toronto.

But before there would be any post-secondary education, he had some_ unfinished business to take care of at high school.

“I managed to screw up my last year,” he said, adding that he was a couple courses short of graduating.

ith that taken care

of, Sweeney was

accepted into the U of.T, and emerged in the spring of 1952 with a Mechanical Engineering degree and a fiancee.

Sweeney took the two to Trois-Rivieres, Que., where he started work at the Consolidated Paper mill—

His stay in La Belle Province lasted until 1960, the same time the Cellanese Corporation of America was opening a new mill

—in-a place the. rest is history.

Sweeney started out as a project engineer, and climbed the corporate ladder until 1975, when he became general manager.

“I never set out to be the

called Castlegar, and_

general manager,” Sweeney said. “Every time there was an opening, I said I'd give it a try.”

“It worked out reasonably well.”

His stay at the top lasted for 14 years, in which he saw both good and bad times.

“The pulp industry is noted for its ups and downs,” he said. “We went through periods of relative prosperity and we went through periods where we were barely able to keep our heads above water.”

During the later of his 40 years in the business, Sweeney worked as both the GM of the mill and the modernization project.

But with only so much time to do either job, he found that wearing two hats was too much.

“I was spending most of my time in Vancouver, where you couldn’t do both jobs,” he said.

He chose to focus his attention on the modernization,

he said.

And when that task was taken care of, Sweeney put himself out to pasture.

“I might just as well retire,” he said, though he is still quite involved in the project.

‘ow, four decades after

joining the industry,

Sweeney says things really aren’t that different today than in 1952. :

“I don’t think there’s been a heckuva lot of change,” he said, adding that the greening of Mother Earth is: more pressing today.

“The biggest change is the environmental concerns,” he said. “They’re certainly far greater than they were 40 years ago.”

With a basement that needs _

an overhaul and an RV ready for the road, Sweeney says he won’t have any trouble keeping busy.

And though his years in the

and handed the reigns to the mill to Jim Browne in December of 1989.

“My job as general manager of the modernization was to see the pulp mill’s needs were incorporated into the design,”

business presented him witha great many questions that needed answers, Sweeney says there is one thing he can’t answer.

“I really don’t know where ~ the name Celgar came from.”

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