How many pulp mills in alberta

Ongoing work will determine how these chips affect the process further downstream and if it is beneficial to segregate these chips. Wade Chute, senior research engineer, agrifibres, said the work is focused on the plants available in Alberta such as hemp, flax and wheat straw. The first two have longer fibres and can be used to enhance strength.

Wheat straw is a cereal crop and has shorter fibres. There has been some interest from the US in pulping corn stover stalks. We will look at the pulp properties a mill wants and try to marry the two. The group is looking at how agrifibre pulp can be substituted for conventional pulps, its effect on paper properties and what the potential savings are. For example, around the Alberta Pacific mill in Boyle there are abundant wheat straw resources.

Silica can be a problem with cereal straws, but not with hemp. Farmers are very interested in the value-added potential it can bring to their operations.

It could provide a dual-purpose crop for them while still proving economical for mills. The use of non-wood fibres may also be beneficial to landspreading. Most secondary sludges have a high nitrogen content and hemp consumes nitrogen. However, as Chute noted, for hemp to be used, it must be competitive with softwood. If not, there will be little interest in anything but specialty markets. Power requirements are lower but yield loss could be a detriment to their acceptance.

Chute said that once taken from the field, the cereal straws are bulky and this could pose a storage problem. Cereal straw quality will also deteriorate. However, for hemp and flax, storage is not a problem and keeping it in the field is not a problem.

In fact, the sun tends to bleach it. Chute said that three mills have invested in research projects in hemp and flax. The percentage of each in the furnish is dependent on the grade. There are some inherent fibre limitations and technical challenges, but there are still some attitudes to overcome.

All processes are set up to handle wood. Chute said that hemp and flax would be viable in Alberta. However, in Ontario, for example, where farmers can grow hemp, they can also grow corn and soybeans.

And these are more viable for them. Any widespread use on agrifibres would have to make good business sense. That is, it could be instituted with a minimal capital expense. Large employers, those with more than five hundred persons on payroll, accounted for 4. An establishment is placed into a NAICS category according to its primary business activity - the product whose revenues are the highest in terms of dollar value.

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