Daishowa-Marubeni

PEACE RIVER
• Named in the 1700’s when a truce was agreed to after a long
battle between the Cree and the Beaver native aboriginal tribes
and the great river they called Unchaga [Peace] became the
boundary between their hunting territories.
• Originates in the Rocky Mountains
• Length 1923 km and drains an area of 293,000 square kilometers
• Level fluctuations are influenced by the WAC Bennett Power
Dam
Nippon Paper
Shareholders.
Industries Co. Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
Marubeni
Corporation
Tokyo, Japan
50 %
West Fraser Timber Co
Daishowa Marubeni International Ltd.
Vancouver, BC Canada
Vancouver, BC Canada
50 %
50 %
100 %
50 %
Cariboo Pulp & Paper Co.
Quesnel, BC Canada
Peace River Pulp Division
Peace River, AB Canada
Overseas Markets
Marketing – Marubeni Corporation
DMI Peace River Pulp Mill
Location
Peace River (Latitude 56°)
500 km North West of
Edmonton
Vancouver
Forest Land Base
km2
115,000
Boreal Mixed Wood
Forest
Alberta 661,185 km2
Mill Site
Alberta
Jasper
Edmonton
Banff
Calgary
First mill specifically designed to produce
Aspen Hardwood Kraft pulp
The Peace River pulp mill uses high quality aspen and
balsam poplar trees for their HW furnish , and spruce/ Pine
for SW.
“Continuous Kraft” process
The mill is legislated environmentally to control emissions to
the atmosphere and to effluent discharged back to the eco
system.
As of today DMI is completely self sustained in terms of
power supply
Attributes
 Superior Printability
 Excellent Formation
 Readily Refined
 Low Bulk/ high density
 Smooth surface
 Good Strength Development
 Excellent coating holdout
Uses
 Coated/uncoated Papers
 Tissue
 Photo Base
 Saturating Grades
 Release Papers
 Food stabilizer ( cellulose)
Species
Trembling Aspen
Balsam Poplar
Attributes
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Excellent Formation/readily refined
Flexible
Smooth surface
Strength
 superior coating holdout
Best suited for:
Species
White/black Spruce
Lodgepole/Jack Pine
 All grades requiring a strong
carrier fibre
 Low bulk grades (Bible, text
books, dictionary)
 Printing and Writing
 Coated/Uncoated Grades
 Premium tissue and towel
 Specialty Grades/food packaging
 Powdered cellulose
Water treatment
effluent
kiln
Evaps
recaust
Chem prep
Power boiler
Recovery Boiler
Chip piles
digesting
Condensing
turbine
Brownstock
washing
bleaching
Machine room
PRPD Challenges
• Rising costs vs Pulp Pricing.
• Transportation
– For chips – Up to 350 km from mill.
– For Pulp – Customers are not near mill
• China, Japan, USA are major export markets.
• 1200 kms from nearest port.
• Closest US customer 2600 kms away
– For inputs
• Chemicals
– Caustic, acid, chlorate etc etc.
PRPD Challenges
• Energy cost and efficiency
– Every MWh not used can be exported and
sold to the power grid.
– Every tonne of steam not consummed can be
turned into electricity for export.
– Every tonne of hog fuel (waste wood) not
required can be diverted to other processes.
– Every cubic meter of water not needed does
not have to be treated, heated, cleaned and
returned.
Opportunities
• Whole tree debarking and
chipping:
– Slash and residues are
underutilized.
– Estimated to have 1 million
tonnes of accessible and
sustainable residues.
– Looking for ways to
improve yields and lower
transport costs.
– Looking for technologies to
use residues that are
financially viable.
• Densification, in bush
converstion.
Opportunities
• Multiple under utilized waste or process
streams:
– Waste fiber is incinerated
• fines from screening pulp chips
• Small fiber that is loss during pulp process.
– Organic sludge from ASB is land applied
– Dregs and grits are landfilled.
– Stripper off gases (high in MeOH) are
incinerated in lime kiln
– Black liquor is densified and burned for power
and recovery of chemicals.
Other opportunities
• Under utilization of undersized wood
stands:
– May never be merchandizable as pulp or saw
wood.
– Need to find processes that are viable in
coverting this wood into value added
products:
• Fuels, chemicals, building materials, bio
enhancements.
Thank you
Questions?
Mike Gauthier
DMI - PRPD