Tembec’s Skookumchuck mill uses Ekho solutions to ensure data traceability and quality management

Tembec’s Crestbrook mill in Skookumchuck, British Columbia, is one of the company’s three facilities in Canada that make northern bleached softwood kraft. It uses many of the performance tools in the Ekho family to enter and manage production data in both manual and automatic modes, and to ensure quick and accurate traceability. The ITI solutions also enable it to monitor the quality of every batch of pulp it makes, which is a critical factor for this mill, with its very high product quality standards. The Crestbrook mill installed the Spek solution for real-time monitoring and control of production and quality settings, the Track solution for tracing events and the origin of finished batches, and the Look report manager.

The Skookumchuck mill produces 650 metric tons per day of premium grade softwood pulp, which is used to make high-grade paper products. Interior Mountain fibres that the mill produces consists mainly of pine and spruce, which boast special properties in terms of making freesheet, tissue and towelling, and paperboard, as well as pulp for mechanical grades papers and specialty pulp.