Day 056 - 28 Nov 94 - Page 58


     
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     2   Q.   The rest are for panels then, are they?
     3        A.  The rest will go for panels.  One has to bear in mind
     4        that the sawmill is independent from the pulp mill. The
     5        sawmill wants the maximum possible price for its product.
     6        It gets a better price for its residue in fibre from the
     7        panel production world than it does from the paper world,
     8        particularly for packaging.
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    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The figures in that table, if I can call it
    11        such, apart from 180, come to 5,340?
    12        A.  Yes.  The reason, my Lord, why I rephrased it this way
    13        so that it could actually add up, because the first way
    14        I expressed it one would have said, well, where has the
    15        other lot gone to?  So I have expressed it in such a
    16        fashion that you see it reasonably could have gone in just
    17        sheer loss in volume terms, in drying out and other
    18        consideration.
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    20   Q.   But the sawmill residues, fibre for panels and pulp include
    21        the 180.  You have extracted that as a separate item on its
    22        own?
    23        A.  I have put down as a gap between to separate it.  My
    24        Lord, as one starts in sawmill today the first operation,
    25        apart from cutting to length which obviously produces a
    26        degree of waste, and apart from removing the bark which
    27        also produces a degree of waste which we have measured
    28        here, the next operation is to square the log.  In squaring
    29        that log before you cut it into boards, you produce a
    30        considerable proportion of usable fibre.
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    32   Q.   So the tops and the squaring off produces really quite a
    33        lot of timber?
    34        A.  It does.  Then other waste, when you have actually sawn
    35        your boards they also do a trimming to ensure that the
    36        boards are straight and, again, a cut to length to ensure
    37        they are to standard lengths and that again produces fibre
    38        which can be used for panels or for pulp.
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    40   Q.   So again it is obvious that you get -- we can start in this
    41        way: You have got sawn wood which is your square heart of
    42        the trunk, as it were, which can then be cut into planks,
    43        I will call them?
    44        A.  Yes.
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    46   Q.   From the tops and the rounded sides you produce 1,086 metre
    47        square of pulpwood, the sawmill residues some of which goes
    48        into chipboard and so on and some of which goes into pulp?
    49        A.  Yes.
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    51   Q.   180 metre cube in fact into pulp.  You have got bark which 
    52        is cut up and ends as mulch on people's gardens, a lot of 
    53        it, and you have got waste in the form of sawdust,
    54        dimensional loss in conversion, drying and defects and so
    55        on.  That is how ----
    56        A.  It balances.
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    58   Q.   --- you get to the sum total?
    59        A.  That is right.  In the process of sawmilling heat is
    60        need, particularly if there is any kiln drying operation

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