Great Northern Timber Group of Companies

Great Northern Timber owns and operates two chip mill facilities in Nova Scotia as well as the shipping terminals in Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia and Dalhousie, New Brunswick. Great Northern Timber also receives chips from off-site chippers.

Truck Receiving:

WEIGHTRONICS 100 ton
80 ft (26m) scale

Chip Van Receiving:

RADAR 65 ton 65 ft (20m)
fixed truck dump

B.I.D. CANADA 50 ton
portable truck dump

Chipmill:

FUJI-KING KD/4-90
Trough Debarker, 90 ft (27m)

CAE Machinery 76"
- 8 knife chipper

Screening:

ERIEZ Electromagnet
for 30" belt

B.I.D. Disc Scalping Screens

B.I.D. Twin 24" Distribution Screw Conveyors

2 - BM&M 12' x 20' Gyratory Twin Deck Screens

48" - 8 knife re-chipper

Storage Capacity:

Roundwood - 50,000 tons

Chips - 8" (200 mm)
14,000 m2 cement pad

Additional chip storage
area - 6,000 m2

Chips - total storage
120,000 tons

Testing Lab:

2 - ovens
Chip analyzer

Production Capacity:

400,000 tons per year

Chipmill:

FUJI-KING KD/4-60 Trough
Debarker, 60 ft (18m)
trailer mounted

Carmanah Design 76"
- 4 knife chipper

Storage Capacity:

Roundwood - 10,000 tons
Chips - cement pad - 1000 tons

Production Capacity:

300,000 tons per year

Export Opportunity:

The Liverpool facility is located within 2km of the Bowater Inc. wharf providing opportunity for softwood or hardwood chip export from the facility.

Chip Pile Reclaim:

B.I.D. 3 Screw Reclaim
& Lump Breaker

Conveyors:

60" wide, fixed & moveable ERIEZ Electromagnet for 60" belt MILLTRONICS 60" belt scale.

Shiploader:

Self-powered Moveable Conveyor Loader

Ship Trimmer:

SVEDALA 4-42" Jet Slinger

Wharf:

152 m long concrete caisson structure, built 1987 Mooring Buoys & two 100 ton land bollards Maximum loaded draft 11.0 m at LLW, tide + 1.5 m Tugboat service, up to 5000 hp available.

Loading Capacity (max):

1200 tons per hour

Truck Receiving:

WEIGHTRONICS 100 ton 90' (27.432 m)

Chip Van Receiving:

50T 45 B.I.D. Canada Transportable Truck Dumper c/w Hydraulic Power Unit

Screw Reclaimer:

B.I.D. Canada 800 tons per hour 3 Screw Reclaim and Lump Breaker

Conveyor System:

3 stage free fall fixed conveyor rated at 600 tons per hour
48" Belt with Cleats
Air draft is of 17.5 m

Outreach of ship loader to fender fence

11 m min to 16.2 m max

Storage Capacity: (Roundwood)

20,000 ton capacity roundwood

Storage Pad Capacity: (Wood Chips)

12,000 m2 - 5" Highway Grade Asphalt Pad
42,000 Ton Capacity

Wharf: (West)

Load limit Structure (H20-S16 Max Railway Loading)
Wharf face has 26 Bollards over a 355 m length
Max low tide 10.3 Draft

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