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By JEFF NAGEL Back in the board room at
IT'S A DRIZZLY Thurs- Repap’s Skeena Cellulose
day in Terrace and Ann sawmill, manager Hank
Foley is making a run for Randrup turns the pages of a
the flag poles in front of guestbook filled with Japa-

mill, Some of Repap’s biggest
‘It took some scrambling customers pop up again and
but the mill's dry kiln super- again’ on the list: Kyoriki
visor” got her hands ona Mokozai, Torisumi,
Taiwanese flag... _. Sumitomo, Yama. Interna-
She hoists it into place and ional, Hitachi. Life, and

white sun-on ablue'and red Since the vast majority of
background — is flying ‘overseas visitors lo the saw-
smartly just as. the mill are Japanese, Randrup
Taiwanese delegation ‘ar-. says the company officials
: are very serious about un-
_ The. businessmen, are. so. ~ derstanding the culture.
stunned at the sight of their ~ Randrup says a visil to the
own nation’s flag they insist. mill all starts witha formal
on having pictures taken. — © welcome ‘in’ the traditional
“SD think i’’s)-a) nice Japanese manner, and in-
louch,’’ says Foley, who's. cludes-an exchange of busi-
new -to the company and to -ness cards.
the job.) £0. “We have Japanese eti-
Foley's office is closest to quette books and the senior
the flag poles, so she keeps people have all been
up the “company’s: long- through a course,'” Randrup
standing tradition of chang- . says..
ing flags as dilferent vistors = When talk turns to busi-
arrive, : 7 ness, the Japanese wanl to
She has in stock the flags know how the company did
of Japan, China, ‘Taiwan, in the last quarter, what it’s
Great Britain, the United expectation - is for — the
States, and Saudi Arabia. months ahead, and whether
“I don’t think there’s been it will be able to meet the

anybody that’s come to visit volume and quality specifi- 7
that we haven't had a flag — cations they require. continued
for,’’ Foley adds: Quality is incredibly im- Dae 18

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- Lumber goes around the globe

REPAP MANAGER Hank Randrup looks over some of the many signatures of clients
from ayerseas who have visited the company’s mill in Terrace. Overseas sales form a
healthy part of the mill’s business.

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