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RECYCLING

e At Cascade Domin-
| ion Inc.'s food container
—) plants in Brantford

| Ontario, products are
made with old phone
books, newsprint, and
other recyclable paper.

e The symbol of Tim-
ber, Paper and Wood-
workers’ Union of the
Soviet Union, host to
p.12 | TWA-CANADA in Octo-
ber '89 — see feature

pgs. 9-10

Getting lumber
out of pulp logs

NANAIMO, B.C. — Since late July of
last year Doman Industries Ltd., a
fast erwin: forest company on the
BC. Coast, has been operating a log
merchandising plant which is design-
ed to salvage useable sawlog portions
from pulpwood log booms.

The plant, which is situated in the
nearby Duke Point Industrial Park,
also chips the remaining portions of

@: log and whole raw logs as the

aterial is carefully sorted and
graded.

As a result Doman has, very
innovatively, created to date 25 new
union jobs and helped to create a
value-added manufacturing facility.

“We're absolutely delighted that
this company has seen fit to upgrade

ulp booms into sawlogs,” says Bill
Rautler, Duncan Local 1-80, First
Vice-President. “For years the IWA
has been saying that the pulp mills
are grinding up good sawlogs and
Doman has proven the point with this
mill’s operations.”

‘The mill can sort up to 1,600 cubic
meters of sawlog material daily.

Plant Manager Stan Allen says that
the sawlog content of the mill varies
from boom to boom. Sources in the
mill say that Doman can recover up to
and over 40% in sawlog material.

The new $15 million facility had
been in the works for a peuple of years
and is a welcomed addition to
Doman’s milling facility.

Andy Vanger, mill manager of
Doman’s (Nanoose Forest Products
Ltd.) 50 man saw and planer mill in
Chemainus, about 30 miles south of
Nanaimo, says the new log merchan-
dising plant has helped to keep his
plan operational.

Brother Routley says Doman has
made the move to process the pulp-
wood as it has been unable to compete
for local “farm wood”, which is pri-
vate timber sold locally.

Companies such as the giant Cana-
dian Pacific Forest Products have bid
up the local wood beyond the reach of
its competitors. CPFP, in the mean-
time, is exporting its own prime tim-
ber from Federal lands to pocket some
pretty big profits.

Meanwhile the locals are scram-
bling for a sustainable supply of raw
material.

The log merchandising facility will
take up to a 60 foot log length, cut out
the sawlog portions (anywhere from
10-24 feet), debark the logs, and then
allow two graders to have a look at
the log.

Doman ships all the useable 42 inch
and under logs down to Chemainus
while the larger logs go over to the
Duke Point Mill next door.

Continued on page 7

© Displaying the lumber at Cooper Cana-
da’s Hespeler, Ontario baseball bat and
hockey stick plant are (1.) Local 1-500
President Bruce Weber and plant chair-
man Manny Melo. — see page 15

B.C. Round
Table’ formed

More than two and a half years
after a committee appointed by the
federal government had recommended
that all provinces create a Round
Table on their environment and econ-
omies, British Columbia has finally
established such a group.

On January 16, Premier Bill Vander
Zalm announced the appointment of a
31 member Round Table which will
include experts from academia, indus-
try environmental groups, labour
unions, local governments and native
groups. The announcement made
BC. one of the last provinces to con-
form with the Round Table format.

The Round Table group, to be
chaired by Charles Connaghan, an
industrial relations consultant_and
former member of the Economic Coun-
cil of Canada, will operate with a $1.5
million annual budget.

It will be responsible for creating a
sustainable economic and environ-
ment development policy and is also
charged with creating public under-
standing of these important issues.

Included in the Round Table’s meet-
ing will be Roger Stanyer, IWA
-CANADA’s fifth National vice-presi-
dent. Other representatives selected
include Ian Donald, chief executive
officer of Fletcher Challenge Canada
Ltd., and environmentalist, Vicki
Husband, of the Sierra Club of West-
ern Canada. Other representatives
from labour include Ken Georgetti,
president of the B.C. Federation of
Labour, and Edgar Birch, of the
United Fishermen and Allied Work-
ers’ Union.

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