Canfor Pulp Announces Extended Production Outage at Northwood Pulp Mill
The outage is to enable the rebuild of the lower furnace of its number one recovery boiler, in order to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the boiler
Canfor Pulp Products Inc. announced an extended outage on one production line at its Northwood Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (“NBSK”) Pulp mill located in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. The outage is to enable the rebuild of the lower furnace of its number one recovery boiler (“RB1”), in order to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the boiler.
The company currently estimates that the extended downtime will be approximately 85 to 100 days, with a reduction in production of NBSK pulp of 68,000 to 80,000 tons and an estimated capital cost of $30 million, as well as higher associated maintenance costs.
Canfor Pulp will continue to operate the second production line at the Northwood Pulp mill over this period.
ABOUT CANFOR PULP PRODUCTS INC.
Canfor Pulp Products Inc. is a leading global supplier of pulp and paper products with operations in the central interior of British Columbia (Canada) employing approximately 1,300 people throughout the organization.
Canfor Pulp owns and operates three mills in Prince George, BC with a total capacity of 1.1 million tons of Premium Reinforcing Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft Pulp and 140,000 tons of kraft paper, as well as one mill in Taylor, BC with an annual production capacity of 230,000 tons of Bleached Chemi-Thermo Mechanical Pulp. To learn more, visit: www.canfor.com.
