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Burnie Paper Mill Nearing Completion
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READY TO COMMENCE
PRODUCTION
WITHIN SIX MONTHS
SUBSIDIARY BUILDINGS
I IN COURSE OF
I ERECTION
The largest building of its kind in Australia, the mill of
Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd., which has become a
landmark at South Burnie, is approaching its final stages.
There is still considerable work to be done, however, in
the installation of machinery and the construction of sub
sidiary buildings, and it is expected that it will be another
six months before everything is ready for the launching of
the industry. !
Of 12,500,000 cubic feet, the main building dwarfs its
surroundings.
Already many hundreds of tons of machinery have been
installed. Another 1000 tons will be brought to Burnie
from England by the Automedon to-day, the Port Hardy on
January 14 and the Port Huon on February 9. There is more
to follow later.
The establishment of the industry has
boen responsible for Burnie undergoing
many changes. During tho past 18
months thero has been much activity
in nroportv and building.
The filling of tho factory site, tho
construction of the mill and other
buildings subsidiary to it, tho laying
of the effluent pipe line, tho manufac
ture of bricks for tho buildings, and
the carting of materials to tho works
have provided work for hundreds of
men, many of whom have como from
other parts of tho State and the main
land.
MILL PROGRESS
Satisfactory progress has been main
tained by Concrete Constructions (Tas.)
Pty. Ltd. with the construction of tho
mill, and the building, nearly 1000 feet
in length with a width ranging to 220
feet and a height ranging to 120 feet,
has boon completed, but for the eastern
iving, which roquire3 the finishing
touches.
The huge finishing room, measuring
ISO feet by 220 foet, with a height of
<J0 feet to tho coiling, awaits tho in
stallation of machinery which has yet
to arrive.
The machino houso, machine shop and
power house also has been completed.
In tho former, which measures 380 feet
by 80 feet, with a height to the ceil
ing of CO feet, a section of tho paper
machino-a huge mass of steel-has
been installed.
The above compriso tho first section
of tho mill, tho dimensions of which
aro 600 feet in length, up to 220 feet
in width and from 50 to 80 feet in
height.
SECOND SECTION
The second section of the mill, meas
uring 40-1 feet by 200 feet, and Tang
ing in height to Í20 feet, comprises the
beater room, bleach Toom, digester
houso, evaporater house and boiler
room. All of these have boen comple
ted but. the latter.
In tho boater Toom will be eight
beaters, and the installation of two
of these has been practically comple
ted.
Tho blench houso will contain five
bleachers, and those are in course of
erection.
Everything is ready in tho digester
houso for the installation of tho ma
chinery, which will arrive to-day.
The evaporators have been installed,
and this room is practically ready for
use.
In the boiler room several of tho
boilers aro partly installed, but a good
deal of work remains to bo done. Tho
rotary incinerators, where all tho waste
material will bo burned, also have boon
placed in position.
OTHER BUILDINGS
Across tho wide concrete road
and rail track flanking the south
ern side of tho mill the woodhouse,
buildings to houso the electrolytic
plant and the blacksmiths and
carpenters' shops aro In course of
erection. The latter have been
also completed, but the electrolytic
plant and woodhouse are In the
early stages of erection.
Tho building to house the electro
lytic, plant is 300 feet in length by
.SO feet wide. In this chlorine for use
in pulp and paper making will bo man
ufactured.
Tho woodroom, measuring 180 feet
by 5(i feet, has Deon about half com
pleted. _ Hero tho timber will be cut
into chips, and thon conveyed by ele
vators to tho top of tho bunkers in tho
digester houso.
The laboratory has teen in uso for
some time, but yet to bo commenced
aro tho administrative block and dining
and changing rooms for men and wo
men employes.
Tho administrative hlock will bo
situated on tho corner of Beovo street
and the Stato highway, at tho north
western corner of tho property.
WATER SCHEME
Water plays an essential part in
tho manufacture of pulp, 50,000
gallons hoing required to produce
ono ton of paper, and as tho esti
mated production 'of the mill is
15,000 tons of paper annually;, tho
quantity of water required will bo
over 750 million gallons, or roughly
3 million gallons a day.
This supply will bo pumped from
tho Emu lliver, a pumping Btation be
ing in course of erection just below
tho Fern Glade bridge. The plant will
bo capable of pumping 3,000,000 gal
lons a day, and tho water will bo
convoyed by pipe-lino to tho filtration
plant. After being treated and im
purities removed it will bo pumped to
an elevated tank, 75 feet above tho
ground, to givo it tho necessary work
ing bend for tho mill. Prom this tank,
which will havo a capacity of 100,000
gallons, tho water will pass direct to
the mill.
A start has boon made with tho
laying of tho pipe-line from tho pump
ing station to tho mill. Constructed
of wood pipes, tho lino will bo approx
imately 7100 feet in length and 42
inches in diameter.
Both tho filtration plant and water
tower will bo of concrete, and aro
being constructed on raised ground on
the southern side of tho Government
railway line, opposite tho mill. This
work is in the early stages of construc
tion.
The 5 ft. concrete effluent pipe
lino from tho mill to the sen on the
Wivenhoe side of the Emu Biver has
been practically completed.
POWER SUB-STATION
Good progress is being made with
tho excavation of tho sito for the
Hydro-Electric Department's sub-sta
tion, for brealdng down the powor for
tho pulp mill. Approximately 3000
square yards of material has been re
moved, and this has boen .used for fill
ing on the factory site.
Tenders aro now being sailed for the
erection of the station, which will bo of
brick and cement. It will bo a two
storey structure, 07 ft. in length, with
a width of 44 ft. and a height of
40 ft. The ground floor will consist
of a workshop storo, a transmission
store and an oil store, while above will
be the control panel room, battery
charging room, multi-generator room
and engineer's office. Tho sub-station
will be ono of tho largest in the State.
SUPPLY OF WOOD
Arrangements have been made for
a separate company, Porest Supplies
Pty. Ltd., of Burnie, to covor tho sup
ply of Taw material in tho shapo of
pulp wood. From tho extensive stands
of timber in the company's freehold
forests and concessions there will bo
required something like 25,000 cords of
milp wood a year, and a similar quan
tity of firewood, which will be chip
ned and fed in that form to the main
boilers.
The fact that the Burnie indus
try embraces tho manufacture of
paper from pulp which the company
itself will malee from trees In Its
own forests, or those over which
it has concessions, distinguishes lt
from tho activities of many paper
companies throughout the world.
In this way tho company's costs
will be independent of fluctuations in
tho pulp market, which frequently ad
versely affect production costs else
where. Its wood resources are amply
sufficient for considerable further de
velopment.
BRIGHT OUTLOOK
Tho running of tho plant with ti
rated capacity of 15,000 tons of fino
papers per annum will roquiro, each
year, in addition to 25,000 cords of
pulpwood and 25,000 cords of firewood,
4000 tons of limestone, 1500 tons of
china clay, 3000 tons of salt;-which
will bo converted in tho electrolytic
plant into caustic soda and chlorine
300 tons of alum, 750,000,000 gallons
of waler, as well as rosin, color and
other requirements.
. Tho capital outlay before the
mill goes into operation will ex
ceed £1,000,000, but the outlook is
regarded as bright, as the prices of
papors which tho company proposes
to manufacturo have appreciated
substantially since the construction
of the mill was begun.
A NEW VIEW of thc factory of Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. at South Burnie, taken with a telescopic camera from the hill to the south. In the right foreground is the partly completed' water purification plant, with the 75 ft. water tower on the extreme right. In course of erection between the purification plant and the mill proper is thc wood house. Thc building be tween thc trucks and the mill is the blacksmiths and carpenters' shop, and to thc right, in course of erection, is the large electrolytic plant house. The tower on thc main mill is thc sprinkler _ control tower. Help
A NEW VIEW of thc factory of Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. at South Burnie, taken with a telescopic camera from the hill to the south. In the right foreground is the partly completed'
water purification plant, with the 75 ft. water tower on the extreme right. In course of erection between the purification plant and the mill proper is thc wood house. Thc building be
tween thc trucks and the mill is the blacksmiths and carpenters' shop, and to thc right, in course of erection, is the large electrolytic plant house. The tower on thc main mill is thc sprinkler
_ control tower.
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