Day 058 - 30 Nov 94 - Page 08
1 pulpwood?
2 A. Yes, my Lord, and that 178 cubic metres relates to the
3 156 tonnes on the following page. So, metres and tonnes
4 are not identical and it really obviously does depend on
5 the density of the wood as calculated.
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7 Q. That is what Mr. Morris was asking. How do you get -- just
8 in general terms -- what are the factors which produce your
9 -- you have brought the trees ---
10 A. Yes.
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12 Q. -- into the sawmill; they go through various preparation.
13 Let us imagine at one end of the sawmill you have 178 cubic
14 metres of pulpwood and at the other you have 254 cubic
15 metres of beautifully square tree trunks with the tops cut
16 off because they are too thin and they have been chucked in
17 the pulpwood section, how do you end up with 156 cubic
18 metres (sic) at the end of the day?
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20 MR. MORRIS: Tonnes.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Tonnes, thank you.
23 A. We begin, as you have mentioned, the 254 metre cubes of
24 sawlogs, and turn the page, you will find that that input
25 volume in metre cubed produces a given volume of sawn wood
26 which is 133 metre cubed, plus sawdust and chips and plus
27 tonnes of bark. That is where that total of 254 went to
28 and made a product of that variety.
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30 The same thing applies to the pulpwood. You bring a metre
31 cube of logs out bearing their bark and bearing everything
32 that is not suitable for pulpwood, and you end up not with
33 178 metre cubed but a volume in terms of tonnage of 156
34 tonnes of pulpwood.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is because what are you doing to the raw
37 material and the fact that a metre cubed is not exactly a
38 metric tonne in any event?
39 A. No. We mentioned the other day, it is a sort of rule
40 of thumb but in conversion to a final product it is not the
41 same factor precisely.
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43 MR. MORRIS: Thank you, that is helpful. This 156 tonnes of
44 pulpwood is transported to Iggesund paperboard, is it?
45 A. They are the paper maker.
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47 Q. So that is what is actually transported to the paper
48 makers?
49 A. No. What is transported to the paper maker on the
50 assumption that he literally takes the raw material in log
51 form is the 178 metre cube. What he produces in the form
52 of paper will be the 156 tonnes of pulpwood for the product
53 that he makes.
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55 Q. So is that making allowances or not -- material is,
56 presumably, lost in production?
57 A. Correct.
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59 Q. Would that also have to be deducted off the 156 tonnes?
60 A. The only waste from the 156 tonnes might be in the
