Paper Recycling Division
Located in Coquitlam, a suburb of Vancouver, our Paper Recycling Division produces de-inked pulp from old newspapers and magazines. Our paper manufacturing divisions then use this de-inked pulp to produce newsprint and telephone directory paper.
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Our Division
Our Paper Recycling Division began operations in 1991 as the first de-inking plant of its kind in Western Canada. The division is served by two major railways and provides ready access to the Trans-Canada Highway and barge transportation on the Fraser River.
The division's recovered paper sources are located in British Columbia and throughout western Canada and the United States. Our Paper Recycling Division uses the most advanced pulping, screening flotation, cleaning and brightening technologies developed throughout the world. This technology ensures that our de-inked pulp can be combined with traditional fibres without any loss of quality in the papermaking process.
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De-inked Pulp
Our Paper Recycling Division produces de-inked pulp — waste paper pulp produced by removing the printing ink from recovered newspapers and magazines.
The newspapers and magazines used to make DIP are the same newspapers and magazines you dispose of in your recycling bin at home and at work. They are sorted, bundled and sent by truck or rail to our de-inking facility.
The de-inking process includes sorting, re-pulping, chemical treatment, bleaching, decontamination (to make sure items such as staples, wood, metal, glass and other impurities are filtered out), dewatering and cutting.
Many factors affect how well ink can be removed from paper, including the type of ink used, the grade of paper, the printing process used and the age of the ink and paper. In general, paper can be recycled five to seven times before the fibres in the paper become too short and weak to be reused.
De-inked pulp is shipped to our divisions in crumb form and primarily by barge.
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Our Community
Located in the heart of the Lower Mainland on the west coast of British Columbia, the City of Coquitlam is home to 115,000 residents. The city is a 30-minute drive from downtown Vancouver, BC's largest city, and about 20 minutes from the US border.
Coquitlam boasts attractive residential areas, a pedestrian-oriented town centre, a wide range of commercial activities, major industrial/business parks and new recreation facilities. It is also rich with heritage stemming from its historic roots, with the influence of the First Nations people and early French Canadian settlers.