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North Carolina Division of Water to*Quality Visit — 7 Jan 2011
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Introduction to Mill and Tour
Dane Griswold, General Manager
Derric Brown, Directory Sustainability
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Map from 2005 Biological Assessment

Pigeon River Restoration Project
• Non-game species re-introduction project for
Pigeon River, coordinated by University of Tennessee
— Non-game fish species historically present in Pigeon River did not return
with improved water quality due to geographic barriers and other factors
— Project focus is science-based targeted reintroduction and monitoring
of these non-game fish
• Canton Mill personnel actively participated in concept and
bringing key parties together in 2000 & 2001
• Evergreen Packaging is one of several organizations that
support the Pigeon River Restoration Project with funding
and volunteer labor
• Reintroductions since 2001 have largely been successful
demonstrating the tremendous biological recovery of the
river since the 1980s
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Color Performance
90 Percent Effluent Color Reduction Since 1988
Figure 2 - Annual Average Effluent Color
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North Carolina Division of Water
Quality Visit — 7 Jan 2011
Reference materials —
By the numbers
Paper 360 Article
Highlighting
Canton Mill and
Pigeon River
Restoration
Project Nov/Dec
2010
Mill tour handout
Pigeon River Below Browns Bridge at
NC/TN State Line revergreeff
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Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc. now doing business as Evergreen Packaging, is proud to be a part
of and significant contributor to Western North Carolina. We are proud of our employees, proud of our
products, and proud of our deep roots in the region.
We are equally proud of the remarkable progress we have made in protecting the environment and
improving the Pigeon River. We have done more than required by our permits, and we work at getting better
every day.
The numbers listed below give you an idea of our history and commitment.
Canton • Pigeon River By The Numbers
al Restrictions on eating fish caught from the Pigeon River
QRank among private manufacturing employers in Western North Carolina
Rank among North American paper mills for how little color is released using
pollution prevention
® Fish species reintroduced into the Pigeon River since 2001
• • 1 Percent reduction in color going into the river since 1988
1 1 Years of operation in the region
1 1 Number of employees in North Carolina
1 1 1 Fish introduced to the Pigeon River since 2001
1 1 1 Average annual wage of Evergreen employees in Western North Carolina
Number of rafters on the Pigeon River in Cocke County since 1995
1 1 1 Property taxes paid in Western North Carolina per year by Evergreen
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Annual payroll in Western North Carolina
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Amount spent on pollution prevention projects at the Canton Mill since 1990
' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Amount spent per year on wages, materials, energy, transportation and services
• by Evergreen's Western North Carolina operations
• , , 000 1 1 1 Amount spent by the Canton Mill on capital projects, including pollution
prevention, since 1990

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"..Blue Ridge Paper needs to be given credit for its improvements. The river is much cleaner than it
used to be. We're very proud of the mill and the workers for all they have done."
Mayor Pat Smathers of Canton, NC.
"The Division appreciates the continued progress of Blue Ridge Paper in improving the quality of
your treated effluent and the Pigeon River. We anticipate continued improvement and progress...."
Alan Klimek, Director, North Carolina Division of Water Quality
"...a"win-win"which shows that economic and environmental interests can in fact, go hand-in-hand.
Both states reap tremendous benefits: a healthy region-wide economy that retains jobs while not
losing a valued recreation and scenic resource."
John H. Hankinson Jr.
EPA Region 4 Administrator
"Cocke County's fastest growing "industry", white water rafting on the Pigeon River..."
Cocke County Chamber of Commerce website www.CockeCounty.org
"Today native fish species have more than doubled in number, and the Pigeon has become one of
the best stream fisheries in East Tennessee. Smallmouth, redeye, walleye, and channel catfish
are plentiful..."
Paul Sloan
Deputy Commissioner
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
MarctvAprll 2009 "The Tennessee Conservationist"
"Now it is a river restored one that will have better days ahead. In fact, this river stands as proof
that technology, money and determination can undo the most serious environmental degradation
that industry can dish out. In these days of global warming and all its accompanying woes, that's a
hopeful sign."
Smoky Mountain News editorial
"The 2005 Biological Assessment found a diverse and healthy aquatic community present in the
Pigeon River below the Mill."
University of Tennessee Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries

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Restoring the Pigeon River;
Evergreen Packaging
AN AGGRESSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM CLEANS UP a troubled waterway
GLENN OSTLE
Derric Brown,Director Sustainatility.
vergreen Packaging in Canton, N.C., today a Lot of hardworking people available to work at the mill
ranks as a remarkable environmental success reinforced the idea that the company"came for the trees
story.But it has been a long trip getting there. but stayed for the people."In 1999,the mill became Blue
In the 100 years since the mill opened, Ridge Paper Products, and in 2007 it was acquired by
effluent from the mill flowed into the Pigeon Evergreen Packaging Group,part of New Zealand-based
River,negatively affecting water quality. But in Rank Group Ltd.
the early 1990s,the mitt began an aggressive program to Canton is a fully-integrated Kraft pulp and paper milt
upgrade its environmental performance. employing about 1000 people and located near the Great
Derric Brown, Director of Sustainability, has been at Smokey Mountains National Park. It uses about 5600
the mill since the 1980s working in environment, health short tons of SW(40 percent]and HW(60 percent)chips
and safety. His father worked there before him. "Today per day shipped in from within 300 miles of the mill, to
in Haywood County [North produce about 1420 short tpd of pulp.Tall oil and turpen-
Carolina], there is a huge tine produced are sold as feed stock chemicals.
commitment to improving The pulp becomes furnish forthe milt's four paper and
and protecting the Pigeon board machines that have a total production capacity of
River,'he says. up to 1800 short tons per day. Three of the machines—
Nos. 11, 12 and 20—produce rolls of uncoated freesheet
SMOKEY MOUNTAIN (UFS),which are shipped toavarietyof customers around
MILL the world for conversion into envelopes,printing papers,
The Canton mill began oper- and colored and specialty papers. It is estimated that
ations in 1908 as Champion Evergreen fills about 4 percent of the North American
Fiber Co. The 175-acre site white paper market.
a was originally seLected for No. 19 machine is a single-ply board machine that
its proximity to red spruce, produces FDA food-grade paperboard which is sent to
fir and chestnut; a good Evergreen's Waynesville IN.C.) plant, about eight miles
evergrecn's State-of-the-a" water supply;and a railroad. away,where the rolls are extrusion coated with poLyeth-
wastewater treatment facility has
significantly Improved water quality. The fact that there were also ylene and other plastics.The Canton mill and Waynesville
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plant, plus other converting plants, originally formed in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway and flows north
Champion's DairyPak Division. about 20 miles to the Walters Dam,built for power genera-
At Waynesville and other Evergreen converting facili- tion.The single Pigeon River watershed is unusual in that it
ties,the board is printed,scored and shipped flat to cus- is entirely contained within Haywood County.After the dam,
tomers who use itto produce gable top cartons for Liquids the river drops about 1000' before crossing into Tennessee
such asjuice and milk,cup stock and ovenabletrays.Most where it eventually connects with the French Broad River.
paperboard produced at Canton is consumed internally by The Pigeon River supports a robust rafting industry begin-
the company's converting plants. ning at the state line.
Says Dane Griswold, General Manager, Canton- According to Nick McCracken, Evergreen Packaging's
Waynesville operations,"Liquid packaging board isn't as Water Compliance Coordinator, "The river started to come
cyclical as other products,and oursmalterUFSmachines back in the 60s and 70s but with the mitt's modernization proj-
allow us to make a lot of specialty products:' ect in the early 90's,it really took off."Since 1990,the mitt has
spent more than US$300 million on pollution prevention.
MODERNIZING THE MILL As a result of the mill modernizing the pulping,bleaching
In 1993 the milt completed the Canton Modernization and spill recoveryand significantly improving the quality of the
Project which included the addition of oxygen delignifica- wastewater discharge,water quality of the Pigeon River and
tion on both fiber Lines(pine and hardwood),and instal- the health of fish populations improved greatly.Species that
lation of 100 percent chlorine dioxide substitution.This had not been seen in over 60 years began returning including
allowed the mitt to achieve 100 percent ECF bLeaching small mouth bass,walLeye and trout.
using chlorine dioxide,which is manufactured on-site.
Enhancements to the black liquor evaporators resulted
in improvements in color and environmental performance
and reduced boil out time.The milt also added an exten-
sive sump recovery system with 22 sumps.Through the ,x......
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environmental improvements,the mill was able to reduce
color from 350,000 Lbs to 39,000 Ibis,measured on a mass
basis,between 1990 and 2010.
"Our whole strategy has been focused on pollution
prevention throughout the milt,to reduce color,flow,B00,
TSS,and AOX,"says Brown."Our BOD load is a small frac-
tion of other milts—typically Less than 10 mg/t.Our limit
is just over 3,000 Lbs/mo.We also reduced water use by
about 35 percent and color by over 75 percent.We've done
all this through an overall program of pollution prevention
which provided more benefits than just dealing with one
piece at a time.' The Pigeon Hlver runs through the center of Evergreen Packaging,center,N.C.
In 1995 the milt added Bleach Filtrate Recycling(BFRI
on the pine line which recycles about 80 percent of the
filtrate back into the liquor recovery process. It consists
of two parts, one to remove minerals such as calcium, ,
magnesium and manganese through ion exchange,and - " -
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the second to remove chloride which can build up in black
Liquor and cause corrosion and blockages.The improved
recycling rate keeps color in the process instead of losing _
it to the wastewater plant. "Some mitts run part of this
process, but we are the only Kraft mill in the world that �•
runs the whole process,"says Brown. i;�� l
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The Pigeon River that bisects the mitt,is small and fluctu- The ,rowx,Necomer81areof the,m° ''swaterstal helps reerueand
ates greatly with the seasons.It begins with headwaters
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National Environmental Partnership Summit.
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the Pigeon River,which is good news for the Local county
xenh rmedw vrd Jimmy Inman mock"the Foxboro P ma[ion as it charges$2 a rafter.Since 1995 more than 1.5 million
systems fm the SW fi a tne.
people have paid to raft on the river.
TREATING THE WATER
'We've come a long way overthe past 20years;says Brown.
"We now have a state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facil-
ity and our performance is among the best in the world."A
1 1995 NCASI study revealed that the Canton mill was signifi-
cantly better than the overall average of 23 surveyed mills in
the areas of AOX,TSS,BOD,COD,color and flow.
According to Brown, the Canton mill uses activated
.�.,._ sludge wastewater treatment and fout condensate steam
stripping for better quality and efficiency.The plant even
PM-zo Ia one m m,aa urs Haver mach nes ai ma cam^n m n processes all the wastewater for the town of Canton.
While many mills use unlined lagoons for wastewater
But there was still a question about the fish that were treatment,Canton uses a fully contained activated sludge
missing. Biological studies found that while the bigger system."This is high efficiency treatment system,"says
game fish had returned,there were still a Lot of smaller Brown. "A Lot of other places wish they had one."
non-game fish that didn't have a way to come back on
theirown."Ariverthat can support both has high biologi- OTHER GREEN EFFORTS
cal diversity and integrity," says McCracken.So the mill, In the last few years the Canton mill has attained a num-
along with a number of state,federal and private groups ber of environmental certifications including SFI and FSC
began the Pigeon River Restoration Project to reintroduce Chain of Custody.Since 2000,the mill has spent more than
and re-colonize native non-game species back into the US$19mitlionon air emissions controls,and today half the
Pigeon River. energy it uses comes from renewable sources.
Coordinated by the University of Tennessee,Knoxville, Derric Brown is also heavily involved in a project with
this multi-agency effort began by reintroducing missing the Carton Councilto recycle used cartons, a collaborative
species in Tennessee in 2001, based on an earlier suc- process that requires sustainable infrastructure starting
cess reintroducing mollusks there.In 2004 reintroduction with recyclers and working with them to accept cartons
efforts began in North Carolina.The fish to be reintro- and sort them into a separate single grade."There's a lot
duced were found in nearby tributaries and waters that of value in the sorted carton grade,and demand is grow-
had a similar habitat structure and tolerances. ing,"says Brown."We are working with mills to take those
"There's a lot that goes into it,"says McCracken."For cartons and recycle them into tissue or recycled pulp.It is
instance,fish were injected with small spots ofdyetoiden- essentially a new source of very good fiber."
tify those from different years and confirm that they were The Canton mill also boasts a solarfarm that generates
reproducing.A lot of the techniques had to be developed 555kW of electricity—enough to power about 50 homes for
as we went along, and now the University of Tennessee a year. Owned and operated by FLS Energy and built on
folks have become national experts." Evergreen's closed Landfill site,it is the Largest solar farm
Today reintroduced fish species that were believed in western N.C. "We don't own it but it makes us feel that
to previously live in the Pigeon River,are surviving and we are helping a Local green company and contributing to a
reproducing.To date,there have been nine species and future renewable energy source,"says Brown.
26,000 individuals reintroduced including gilt and banded
darters, bigeye chub, mirror, saffron, silver, telescope, Glenn Ostle is Editorial Director/Associate Publisher of
Tennessee and highland shiners. Paper3600 and can be contacted at [e-mail].
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Canton Mill TourjQ
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CANTON MILL
Site History,
Process
Information
and Photo Tour
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Canton Mill
Waynesville Plant
Canton Mill Brief History .
• Established in 1908 to produce pulp for
the Champion paper mill in Hamilton, Ohio
— Site selected for proximity to spruce,fir and chestnut trees in WNC
mountains,good water supply and access to railroad
— Discovered that the people of WNC were the greatest resource
Came for the trees,stayed for the people
• Ownership
— 1908 to 1999—Champion
— 1999 to 2007—Blue Ridge Paper Products(ESOP)
— Now part of Evergreen Packaging Group
— North Carolina operations under Evergreen Packaging include
Canton Mill,Waynesville Plant and Raleigh Converting Facility
• Many changes over 100 year history of mill site

Waynesville Brief History
• Waynesville Extrusion Coating Plant
— Lines I &2- 1960s
— Line 3— 1988 upgraded in 1998
— Canton Mill and Waynesville plus the converting plants were the
"DairyPak Division"of Champion International
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July 2007-Combined the assets of IP Beverage Packaging Division and
Blue Ridge Paper Products/DairyPak
— Largest gable top liquid carton manufacturer in North America and second
largest in the world
— Can provide complete paperboard packaging solutions to our customers
including package systems,printing and filling equipment
— 2 mills(Canton/Waynesville,NC&Pine Bluff,AR)16 package conversion
plants,plus Evergreen Equipment
aev"rl��rii 650,WD tons of liquid packaging,cup
and n.y,tock.
zx BLUE RIDGE 250,000 .used for envelope conversion
PINEBLUFF
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Canton Mill Products
Products
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Bleached Kraft pulp
Paper and
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Tall oil and turpentine
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Canton Mill Viewpoint 400
• Our jobs and contribution to regional vex;
economy are important
— Mill is largest private manufacturing employer remaining in Western NC
• 1190 employees in Haywood Co(Canton&Waynesville)
• Average hourly wage of$18 plus benefits
• Total payroll in Haywood Co of$70 million per year
• Payroll multiplier benefit to regional economy of 3 to 9 times
— Annual operating expenditure(wages,materials,energy,transportation
and services)in excess of$450 million centered in Western NC
Of this economic activity more than$50 million per year of
materials and services are sourced from Tennessee
— Annual local property taxes
of$1.4 million
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• Protecting the Pigeon River is important
— More than$300 million spent to protect the river since 1990
— Biological health of river is good and designated uses are supported
• Improving air quality and reducing fossil carbon
emissions are Important
— More than$19 million spent since 2000 on new air emission controls
— Mill meets all applicable standards and is actively planning to meet
expected future requirements for Regional Haze and Climate Change
— More than 40 percent of the mill's total energy input comes from
renewable sources(biomass)
— Mill's current fossil energy carbon
emissions are 6 percent less than
in 1990,the base year for Kyoto
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Canton Mill Viewpoint
Recovery of the Pigeon
River is a Clean Water
Act success story
— Help spread the word and
celebrate this success
— Mill is committed to
continued improvement as
technology allows
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Canton Mill Environmental Certifications
• EPA National Environmental Performance Track
— Charter and renewing member from 2001 until program
ended in March 2009
• Third party* forest product certifications:
— Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) Fiber Sourcing
— Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody
SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE
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•PEFC-International Program for
the Endorsement of Forest Certification
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Canton Mill— Fully integrated bleached Kraft Pulp mill on Pigeon
River in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western NC
•200 acre site in downtown Canton
•Pine and hardwood fiber lines
•2 B&W Recovery Furnaces
•5 Power Boilers
•3 Paper Machines—800 ton per day
•1 Paper Board Machine—1000 ton per day
Waynesville Plant
• 250,000 sci ft paper board extrusion
coating plant
• 3 extrusion lines—900 ton per day
• R&D package testing laboratory
Canton Mill — Unique Features
• Bleach Filtrate Recycling(BFRTM)—only Kraft pulp and
paper mill in the world with this process
— Pollution prevention technology for containing Kraft pulp color within the
process and reducing wastewater load to treatment
• Elemental chlorine free (ECF) bleaching with OD100TM
— Current"state of art"minimum environmental impact technology for bleached
Kraft pulp production
• Activated sludge wastewater treatment,foul condensate
steam stripping
— Many pulp and paper mills use lagoons and the clean condensates alternative
• Wastewater treatment performance including color is
among best of Kraft pulp mills in the world
• Lined process waste landfill with leachate collection
— Many pulp and paper mills and electric power plants use unlined
lagoons for disposal of sludge,ash and other process waste materials

Canton Mill — Basic Process Flow
Pulp
CHIPS Production LIME
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SCREENING Ca0H 1 CuCO,
1 White Liquor
DIGESTERS CAUSTICIZING
1 Green Liquor
FIBERLINES Block Liquor
Washing — EVAPORATORS — RECOVERY
FURNACES
Bleaching
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PAPER MACHINES Paper Chemical
Production Recovery Cycle
Canton Mill Process Description 1 of 6
• The Canton Mill is a fully-integrated Kraft pulp and paper mill with
one exception-due to space constraints the mill does not have a
wood yard. The mill purchases hardwood and softwood (pine)
chips from suppliers in Western North Carolina, Upstate South
Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. The wood chips are shipped to
Canton by truck and by rail. The mill receives about 5600 short
tons of wood chips per day.
• Primary products of the mill are FDA food-grade paperboard and
uncoated free-sheet paper. Rolls of paperboard from the mill are
moved by truck from Canton to the Waynesville Plant where the
rolls are extrusion coated with polyethylene and other plastics. The
extrusion coated paperboard is then shipped to converting facilities
owned by Evergreen and by other companies where the board is
made into fiber-based liquid packaging including gable top cartons,
drink cups and ovenable trays. Rolls of uncoated free-sheet paper
are shipped to a variety of customers around the world for
conversion into envelopes, printing papers and other consumer and
commercial products including drywall tape,freezer wrap and
billboard paper.

Canton Mill Process Description 2 of 6
• The art of papermaking is the furnish, or recipe,for making fine
paper and paperboard from a blend of hardwood and softwood
cellulose pulp fiber. Hardwood pulp fibers are short and give paper
properties of opacity and printability. Pine fibers are long and give
paper tensile strength. Sizing such as starch and other additives are
used to give paper and paperboard surface properties and wet
strength required for different customer uses.
• The Canton Mill has four(4)paper machines with a nominal
production capacity up to 1800 short tons per day. Three of the
paper machines—Nos. 11, 12 and 20—produce uncoated free-
sheet paper. The No. 19 paper machine produces FDA food-grade
paperboard.
• Parts of the Canton Mill are old, but the process is fully modern
with automation and distributed controls.
Canton Mill Photo Tour
Primary Input is
Wood Chips
- 5600 tons per day
Chip Piles on western end
of Canton Mill property.
Hardwood and pine wood
chips are delivered by truck
and by rail from suppliers in
Western North Carolina,
Upstate South Carolina
and Eastern Tennessee.

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No. 20 PM
Canton Mill Photo Tour
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Canton Mill Process Description 3 of 6
• The Canton Mill manufactures bleached Kraft hardwood and
softwood slush pulp to supply the paper machines. The mill's
nominal pulp manufacturing capacity is 1420 short tons per day.
The mill also purchases paper broke and dry furnish pulp fiber as
required to supply the paper machines. The mill purchases some
post-consumer recycled paper fiber to make paper grades
containing recycled fiber content as requested by customers.
• In the Kraft pulping process,wood chips are screened and then
loaded into large batch digesters where the chips are cooked with
pulping chemicals call white liquor. The digesters are large
pressure cookers heated by both direct and indirect steam. The
cooking process is necessary to dissolve lignin in the wood to free
cellulose pulp fibers which are used to make paper. Lignin is
nature's glue that binds cellulose fibers together to make wood.
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Canton Mill Process Description 4 of 6
• After cooking with white liquor in the digesters,the cellulose fibers
freed from the wood are washed and then bleached in fiberlines to
make bleached Kraft pulp. The Canton Mill uses elemental
chlorine free,or ECF bleaching. The specific bleaching chemical is
chlorine dioxide which is manufactured on site. Bleached Kraft pulp
is a high quality virgin cellulose fiber necessary for making fine
papers and food-grade paperboard.
• In the pulp washing process,the spent pulping chemicals called
black liquor are collected and concentrated in multi-stage
evaporators. Black liquor is a mixture of lignin dissolved from wood
and spent chemicals from wood digestion. The black liquor,which
is mostly lignin or dissolved wood,is burned in recovery furnaces to
recover pulping chemicals and to make energy for the pulping
process. Black liquor is a biomass fuel with a high energy content.

Canton Mill Process Description 5 of 6
• The heart of the Kraft pulping process is chemical recovery. Pulping
chemicals in the black liquor accumulate as molten smelt in the
bottom of the recovery furnace. The smelt is withdrawn from the
furnace and reacted with steam and water to make green liquor.
The green liquor is then slaked with lime to re-manufacture white
liquor that is used to digest wood. The recovery furnaces and
associated lime kilns and slakers allow the Canton Mill to
continuously regenerate and recycle its Kraft pulping chemicals.
The recovery furnaces make the Kraft process efficient and
economical. The furnaces generate steam as a by-product that
provides more than 40 percent of the total energy input to the
Canton Mill.
• The process of cooking wood to make cellulose pulp makes two by-
product chemicals—tall oil and turpentine. The Canton Mill sells
tall oil and turpentine as feed stock chemicals to other companies.
Canton Mill Photo Tour
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Recovery Furnaces
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Canton Mill Process Description 6 of 6
• The Canton Mill includes a large utility complex to support mill
operations. These utilities include a raw water plant, a steam plant
with electrical power generation and wastewater treatment. In
addition to black liquor solids,the mill burns coal,wood and fuel oil
to make steam and electricity. The mill uses combined heat and
power which is a very efficient process for extracting maximum
energy value from fuel. The mill generates electric power in
turbines powered by steam from the recovery furnaces and power
boilers. The steam extracted from turbines is then reused for
process heat. Overall thermal efficiency as high as 65 percent is
obtained. The typical electric power plant without combined heat
and power achieves only 35 to 40 percent thermal efficiency.
• The mill self-generates up to 80 percent of its power needs and
purchases additional electrical power from Progress Energy.
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Site utilities include " {
raw water treatment
to make process
water to operate the
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Hill Filter Plant
Low Head Dam
Impoundment for
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Steam Plant Utilities
include 5 power boilers
and two recovery furnaces
Fuels include wood, coal,
black liquor solids and oil
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Power Boilers,
Generator Room
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Monitoring
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Wastewater Treatment
Plant
Effluent quality is among the
best of Kraft pulp and paper
mills in the world
Color performance is
excellent—Canton Mill is
recognized as an industry
leader
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Warehousing and
Distribution
The Canton Mill ships products
by truck and rail
Both domestic and
export
Mix of on-site and off-site
warehouse facilities
24/7 truck shuttle of
paperboard to Waynesville
Plant for extrusion coating
Waynesville also ships
products by truck and rail

Canton Mill — Common Questions
Why can't the mill use 100 percent recycled fiber to make paper
and save trees? Paper and cellulose fiber recycling is an important
industry that the Canton Mill supports by producing virgin fiber
which starts the paper recycling process. A cellulose fiber breaks
down when recycled and can only be recycled a few times before it
falls apart. Virgin pulp mills are necessary to have paper recycling.
The high quality papers and paperboard manufactured at the Canton
Mill require virgin bleached Kraft pulp. The mill does manufacture
some paper grades with post-consumer recycled fiber content. The
recycled fiber is purchased from paper recycling mills.
Why can't the mill use total chlorine free, or TCF bleaching? For
several technical reasons the fiber-based packaging products and
paper products made by Evergreen and our customers require the
ECF bleaching process. The TCF process destroys cellulose fiber
strength and is detrimental to paper quality.
Canton Mill — Common Questions
Are Canton Millwood supply practices sustainable? Yes, Canton
Mill wood sourcing abides by sustainable forestry practices and has
done so for many years. We are third-party certified to the
Sustainable Forestry Initiative or SFI standards for responsible
wood source procurement and harvesting. We actively work with
our loggers and chip supply partners to help them maintain SFI
standards and certification. We are also third-party certified for
chain-of-custody wood source product labeling. The mill is an
important part of the forest products industry and provides a
regional outlet for wood residuals, particularly hardwood,that
would otherwise go to waste when trees are harvested for more
valuable purposes such as telephone poles, lumber, plywood and
veneer.
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