PAGE Az, THE HERALD, Wednesday. March 23, 1977

Terrace sawmi

Bernd Koken, President of
Abitibi-Price Lumber Co.
has attacked a productivity
problem in the company's
eight sawmills by starting
with the Price Skeena
Forest Products Ltd.
sawmill in Terrace. This has
been accomplished by
improving working con-
ditions and convincing
workers that management
was eager to cooperate with
them.

He has advised that the
program helped raise
productivity by 18 percent at
the company's Terrace
sawmill and itis because of
the success, similar
programs are being started
in the company’s Quebec
and Ontario mills.

Speaking before a
Canadian Lumbermen’s
Association meeting in
Toronto, Mr. Koken warned
that lumber producers in
Eastern Canada have been
unable to compete with
sawmills in the southeastern
United States because of
labour costs and poor
productivity.

The gains demonstrated
by the Terrace miil reflects
the corporate stance and got
underway last year. He said

that he estimated that 50 to”

60 percent of the 18 percent
rise in production per
worker came from new
investment in equipment
and an improved attitude on
the part of the workers.

He explained the in-
creased productivity of the
Terrace mill means each
worker last year produced
228 more board feet of
lumber a day over the
previous year,

Mr. Koken said that a
basic part of the improved
labour relations program
consisted of giving more
attention to working con-
ditions —- improved lighting
and ventilation for example
and the beginning of strict
safety inspections by a
commiltee of workers and
management personnel.

IMPROVEMENT
CONTINUES

. The inereased produc-

tivity reported last year
continues in this year. In a
telegram sent to Price-
Skeena staff on March 9,
Mr, W.A. Pauli, General
Manager, Lumber
Operations, for Abitibi-
Price offered
congratulations on the
performance of the Terrace
mili. He said that Terrace
has established a new
milestone for the local
sawmill by averaging 166
thousand feet per shift of
hemlock, fir and cedar over
40 shifts.

Mr. Pauli indicates that
the results of improved logs
from the woods and the
efforts of everyone in the
woods and at the sawmill
are quite evident.

Bill McRae, who is in
charge of the Terrace
operation, tock us through
the mill last week to show us
some of the new equipment
installed last year and how
the new program is
working.

The Terrace sawmill
anticipates producing 76

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million board feet of lumber
this year. In addition the
firm sells its sawdust and
shavings to Eurocan in
Kitimat and chips go to the
pulp mill in Prince Rupert.

The average production is
1,593 thousand board feet
per day for every person on
staff, including office
workers. There are 22 on
staff at the moment. In
addition Price-Skeena
constructs all its forestry
roads. All of the logs are
brought in by independant
contract truckers.

The capital investment on
new equipment and
renovation and rebuilding
last year was ap-
proximately $500,000 with
about half of that amount
going for new equipment.

The skilled labour at
Price-Skeena is very stable
with about 80 percent of
them qualifying to be called
oldtimers. During 1976 there
was no work stoppage and
there has never been a
labour stoppage at the mill.

Bill McRae said that the
best thing for the forest
industry is to obtain peace in
labour. If this can be ab-

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tained it will not only give a
lift to the industry locally,
but will be tremendous boon

- for the entire country. “It is

essential,’’ said McRae,
‘that both sides do

whatever possible to see —

that the industry works all
year.”

McRae indicates that
the lumber market at the
moment is good but pulp
remains soft. He said that
the re-opening of the new
kraft mill in Prince Rupert
will help this area con-
siderably. He said that
according to information
available to him con-
struction at Prince Rupert is
on target.

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