A.P.P.M. might expand plant

Press, 18 July 1979, Page 22

A.P.P.M. might expand plant

NZPA Sydney Associated Pulp and Paper Mills, Ltd, Australia’s only maker of fine paper, is considering expansion to its Wesley Vale plant after sustained world-wide shortages of magazine papers. In 1977, A.P.P.M. announced the shelving of a sAust2ooM project to expand the plant. It said at the time that because of the uncertainties of financing such a project, in conditions of continuing recession in pulp and paper industry, A.P.P.M. had been “reluctantly obliged to defer the expansion.” The company has now no-

Itified all customers that 1 orders for lightweight-coai J mechanical grade papef; ! would not be accepted for August, to allow it to catci! i up with a snow-balling back*. Ilog. This will mean publishers} stocks of papers for magaj zines such as “Cleo.ll “Woman’s Day” and othej colour productions will ba run down. The Wesley Vale plane built near Devonport, Tast mania, in 1971, has beef} running 24 hours a dayfc l seven days a week for a year to keep up with un| precedented demand for th# inexpensive type of coate< paper. It is A.P.P.M.’s main area, and if high demand continues it will have to expand the plant.