Great Northern Timber [GNT]
 
 

Facilities
 

Great Northern Timber owns and operates two chip mill facilities in Nova Scotia as well as the shipping terminal in Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia. Great Northern Timber also receives contracted chips from off-site harvesters.

Sheet Harbour Facility

Liverpool Facility

Shiploading Terminal

Off-site Production







Sheet Harbour
Chipping Facility

Truck Receiving:

WEIGHTRONICS 100 tonne
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 tonnes

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

Additional chip storage
area - 6,000 m2

Chips - total storage
120,000 tonnes

Testing Lab:

2 - ovens
Chip analyzer

Production Capacity:

400,000 tonnes per year


Liverpool
Chipping Facility

Chipmill:

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

Carmanah Design 76"
- 4 knife chipper

Storage Capacity:

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

Production Capacity:

300,000 tonnes 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.


Sheet Harbour
Shiploading Terminal

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 tonne 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 tonnes per hour


Off-Site
Production

GNT utilizes chip production capacity from roadside flail chippers as well as residual chip supply from sawmills.

Flail Chippers:

3 - PEDERSON 5000
flail chip harvester

Capacity:

80,000 tonnes per year each

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