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Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, The "number one objective" at Kimberl) Clark is to make quality pulp- By Wendy Parker Special to the News Kimberly-Clark's "number one objective" at its Terrace Bay mill is to make a quality pulp that meets the standards the customer expects, says Jack Lavallet, presi- dent of K-C of Canada and gener- al manager.of the Terrace Bay mill. "It's meeting the standards that the customer has to have, where he can open a boxcar of our pulp and never glance at it to wonder whether it really is what it says it is. "It's going to be exactly what he wants, because that's what we shipped him." The company has achieved that objective about 75 per cent of the time "and that's not a small thing to say" because the Terrace Bay mill couldn't have hit that mark in the past, he said. "It just made something and vou tried to sell it." Financial loss After a year of intense effort trying to pull the Terrace Bay facility out of a quagmire of financial losses, the company is confident it has stabilized its mar- ket and its customers. "We are very, very proud," Lavallet said. "In July, we made more high-quality hardwood pulp than ever before. And that's good. We're proud of that." To make a quality pulp, sever- al things have to happen, Lavallet said. "First you have to have the dedication of the people who make it, because it's hard and expensive to do. "You have to have a mill that, runs. I don't know of very many industrial-process things that can make a quality product without running...you've got to get the system up and the whcels mov- ing. And we've been able to do ~ that. The place is running a lot better." Competition curious Kimberly-Clark has also made some changes that Lavallet declined to detail "because some of our competition would love to know some of the things we've done." These changes are not neces- sarily new to the business and pulp mills are not secrative places, he said, "But we do a few things here that are a little bit dif- ferent than other people. "Consequently, we are able to make a product that is pretty damn good for this place." The second of the company's two primary business strategies is to operate the facility at a profit, he said. The need is a basic one. The company's parent, Kimberly- Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wisconsin, told Terrace Bay it would close the mill unless for- tunes turned around by the end of the year. The company implemented a three-point survival plan aimed at getting its mill operating effi- ciently, securing a new environ- mental control order and bringing its wood costs into line. "We are very, very proud. In July, we had more high-quality hardwood pulp than ever before." ig TOWNE CINEMA for a great night out and : the best in new theatre releases 825-3771 THE LOBBY who knows movies better VHS & Beta rentals 825-9281 It got the control order earlier this year, Lavallet said, but it still has to do all the work to meet the objectives. It now has experts from around the world working on the problem of toxicity in the mill's effluent "and that's one of the top 10 objectives of this entire corpora- tion- to find the solution of the toxicity problem at a pulp mill." Terrace Bay is expending "a finding solutions to the toxicity problem, he said, "for lots of rea- sons, including the fact that we made the press a lot and people expect us to do something; we've committed to do something; and our control order gets reviewed again pretty quickly." 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