Crown record
PA Wellington Fletcher Challenge, Ltd’s 96 per cent owned Canadian subsidiary, Crown Forest, has been setting new world speed records with its number five newsprint machine based at the Elk Falls plant on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The machine was clocked at 1322 metres a minute for more than 24 hours on February 25 and 26, the company said in a statement r During the record setting run, the machine produced 1353 tons of newsprint. The machine was
breaking its own world record set in November, 1986, of 1315 metres a minute.
The number five machine is one of the three newsprint machines at Crown’s Elk Falls plant and was built in 1982.
Crown Forest recently announced a SNZ34 million pulp expansion project at Elk Falls which will enable newsprint production to be boosted from 450,000 tonnes annually to more than 500,000 tonnes. The Elk Falls mill also manufactures 86,000 tonnes of kraft paper and 190,000 tonnes of kraft market pulp.
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Press, 20 March 1987, Page 10
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