{"id":154,"date":"2014-06-13T19:40:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/?post_type=chapter&p=154"},"modified":"2014-08-10T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T18:18:29","slug":"7-4-pulp-and-paper-mills","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/chapter\/7-4-pulp-and-paper-mills\/","title":{"raw":"Pulp and Paper Mills","rendered":"Pulp and Paper Mills"},"content":{"raw":"While lumber was and is a vital part of the forestry industry, pulp and paper mills increased in importance in the 20th century due to global demand. By the 1930s both Powell River and Ocean Falls were important producers of pulp. By 1951, Prince Rupert, Duncan Bay, Port Alberni, Marmac and Victoria added pulp and paper mills and the demand increased throughout the 1960s.\r\n\r\nMultinational corporations<\/strong>\u00a0were encouraged to invest in the forestry industry, and in the 1960s Weyerhaeuser (an American company) developed a state-of-the-art pulp mill in Kamloops, which produced more than just pulp. Weyerhaeuser\u00a0 owned sawmills that allowed them to have the rights to the raw materials and much more control over the end uses. Having both sawmills and pulp mills made economic\u00a0sense because the\u00a0by-products of the sawmills could be used.\r\n\r\nIn\u00a0the 1960s and 1970s, major investments were being made in production in BC's Interior, as both\u00a0the road and railway systems had increased to give more access to forest resources. The 1970s saw production increase but consolidation and integration meant fewer mills. New mills were\u00a0more efficient, so older mills on\u00a0the coast were pressured to compete more effectively with Interior\u00a0investments. By the 1990s and\u00a0early 2000s,\u00a0increased economic pressure from a globalized market resulted in\u00a0Prince Rupert, Powell River, Port Alice and Port Alberni mills being\u00a0restructured, and the Gold River Mill closed.","rendered":"

While lumber was and is a vital part of the forestry industry, pulp and paper mills increased in importance in the 20th century due to global demand. By the 1930s both Powell River and Ocean Falls were important producers of pulp. By 1951, Prince Rupert, Duncan Bay, Port Alberni, Marmac and Victoria added pulp and paper mills and the demand increased throughout the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Multinational corporations<\/strong>\u00a0were encouraged to invest in the forestry industry, and in the 1960s Weyerhaeuser (an American company) developed a state-of-the-art pulp mill in Kamloops, which produced more than just pulp. Weyerhaeuser\u00a0 owned sawmills that allowed them to have the rights to the raw materials and much more control over the end uses. Having both sawmills and pulp mills made economic\u00a0sense because the\u00a0by-products of the sawmills could be used.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0the 1960s and 1970s, major investments were being made in production in BC’s Interior, as both\u00a0the road and railway systems had increased to give more access to forest resources. The 1970s saw production increase but consolidation and integration meant fewer mills. New mills were\u00a0more efficient, so older mills on\u00a0the coast were pressured to compete more effectively with Interior\u00a0investments. By the 1990s and\u00a0early 2000s,\u00a0increased economic pressure from a globalized market resulted in\u00a0Prince Rupert, Powell River, Port Alice and Port Alberni mills being\u00a0restructured, and the Gold River Mill closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-154","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":243,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/154\/revisions\/1002"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/243"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/154\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}