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Alberta-Pacific has an open door policy, and invites members of the public to come out to the mill site to see its operations first hand. Educational institutions, industry visitors and customers can tour the company's facilities year-round. Tours for the general public are available from May to August each year. Due to safety considerations, participants must be 12 years of age or older.
Tours Include:
Internal Tour
The internal tour takes visitors through the interior of the mill, showing how a tree is turned into pulp. Participants will visit the Fibreline, where the pulp is bleached using ECF (Elemental Chlorine Free) technology and pulp samples are taken right out of the washers for visitors to see. They will also visit the Control Room, the nerve centre of the operation, and the Chemical Recovery and Utilities area, where power is generated from steam and chemicals are recycled. A final trip through the Machine Room shows how the pulp gets formed into sheets, cut, baled and shipped out to customers all over the world.
External Tour
Visitors on our external tour will see our giant Portal Kranco cranes in action, taking logs from trucks and placing them on the log pile. They will pass the Woodroom, where logs are stripped, chipped and sprayed into our chip piles, and the chips are aged before beginning the pulping process. Participants in the external tour also visit the Water and Effluent Treatment area, more fondly known as "the Bug Farm", where microscopic creatures take a bite out of mill waste in one of the most efficient water treatment plants in all of North America. The tour provides many general mill facts, as well as a look at areas such as Power and Recovery, Chemical Preparation and Health and Safety |
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