TASMAN PAPER MILL

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27636, 18 April 1955, Page 13

TASMAN PAPER MILL

POSSIBLE EXTENSION OF PLANT MORE MACHINERY MAY BE BOUGHT (New Zealand Press Association). AUCKLAND. April . The purchase of a second paper machine for the Tasman Pulp Paper Company’s mill at Kawerau is under consideration. The type of paper it will produce has not yet been cided. The company was too preoccupied getting the existing plant into deration to concern itself too deeply at this time with the intricacies of a second machine, said the company’s general manager (Mr M. L. Hobday). All he could say at this time was that the second machine would be a paper machine. The potential of the Kaingaroa forest is said to be enough to support hine paper machines. There would he a, day-to-day market for sawn timber. “I am confident we can dispose of the whole of the sawn timber on New Zealand and Australian marketfli,” Mr Hobday said. He expressed his satisfaction with the marketing arrangements for the company products. New Zealand and Australia will take newsprint, the output of which will increase to as much as 75,000 tons a year. There have been reservations in India and Australia and sales in Europe for pulp, for which the plant has a rated capacity of 35,000 tons. Possible markets for newsprint are greater than the rated capacity of the first machine.