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
