PAGE 2 SKEENA CELLULOSE INC. - pa ERIN THANK YOU We at Kaien Ford Sales would like to take this moment to give special thanks to Skeena Cellulose. At Ford Motor Company of Canada “Quality is Job 1”. At Kaien Ford Sales “Quality Customer Care is Job 1”. Whether you are dealing with our sales, service, parts, or our body shop, you will receive the best service we can provide. Once again THANK-YOU Skeena Cellulose. Your confidence and patronage is responsible for our unprecedented growth. THANK YOU KAIEN FORD SALES LTD. 1105 Chamberlain Avenue Prince Rupert, B.C. 624-9645 GESCAN LIrp. ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS SERVING THE NORTHWEST 7 SINCE 1953 ¢ Wire and Cable * Industrial Tool Division * GE Programmable Controllers * Industrial and Commercial Lighting ¢ All Commercial] and Industrial Needs CALL TOLL FREE GESCAN ETD. 1-800-663-3121 Phone: §24-5220 Fax: 627-2680 800 Fraser Street Prince Rupert, B.C. V8 1R2 A ribbon cutting ceremony at the new administration building scheduled for December 45 marks the end ofan ex- tensive modernizafion and expansion program at Skeena Pulp Operations on Watson Island, 40 miles south of Prince Rupert. Completed at a cost of more than $70 million, the 30-month program has increased the pulp mil's annual capac fy from 425,000 to 480,000 metric tonnes of high quality bleached kraft pulp. At the same time, it hos enabled the mill ta control costs, improve pulp quality and List. a New look for Skeena Pu Ip tuning the fast of Sur Installations,” Taylor explains. “and we're ‘surpassing all nor- mall. :stortup experiences. Wa could never have done It without the dedica- ‘tion ofall of our peopie,” ~~ BULK OF PROGRAM INTERNAL “The bulk of the program Is intemal,” @xplains Production Manager Ari Patter, who has been Involved in four major fenovation programs since he joined the mill more than 25 years ago. “Most of our focus has been on the working guts of the mill — on production upgrading and extensions to existing bulldings.” Arecenily completed $70 miftion modernization and expansion pro- gram Is increasing the Skeena Pulp mill's production capacity from 425,000 to.480,000 metric tonnes per year, ensure that the mill will be cost’ cem- patitive under oll market conditions: UNDERWAY IN 4986 The program begen scon after the 4986 acquisition of the mill by Enterprises inc. of Montreal, a. company that has based its sucdess on tts ability fo acquire and medemize exisling pulp and paper mitis, and turn theminte effi: cient, profitable operations. “Our number one was job The Skeena pulp mill has-two operating pulp milis,.On “A” Mill, the larger of the two, the oulp mactine has, undergone ¢ majler: upgrade, starting . win anew headbox right through fo a denthies New spray stencilier that now I the quiomatically wrapped and baled paokcige ca a Skeend and Repap Product. vets | security,” says Stu Taylor, General Manager of the time the mill was ac- quired by Rapap, and now Vice Prast- dent. Pulp. : “this is a cyclical Industry, and we take the position that when the pulp market falls off, we have to be costand quality compelitive in erder to run, In other words, we intend to keep our cust and our jobs, “We're now commissioning and fine I to-"B* Mill include « . Seventh batch ‘digester. to: increase - ally pulp production and a new state- ofthe-art” distriouted control: system, focated In: the mill's "skyiabs" contrat room, Ubes advanced technology to continuously monitor and control varlous aspecis of the pulping process, hnaddition, the bleach claaning system hos been upgraded wit three new obeaeh plant wether Installed ala cost of $600,000 each.