Kinleith Mill

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The mill from the northeast.
The mill from the northeast.

The Kinleith Mill is a Carter Holt Harvey pulp and paper plant located at Kinleith, Tokoroa, New Zealand. The mill is the largest[1] of four[2] pulp and paper mills operated by Carter Holt Harvey. It is one of eight mills operating in the New Zealand pulp and paper industry.[3]

Kinleith Mill has a production of approximately 330,000 tonnes of paper grades per year, plus 265,000 tonnes of predominantly bleached pulp.[4] The site boasts its own cogeneration plant operated by Genesis Energy, which burns wood waste and generates approximately 40 MW used mainly on-site.[5] The mill is Tokoroa’s largest employer, with some 450 employees and 280 additional subcontractors, mainly from ABB.[6]

Kinleith was established as a sawmill community and dedicated timber forests serving it were planted from 1924 on, with a rail link reaching the facilities in 1952 (Kinleith Branch), and the mill itself starting work in 1953. Tokoroa was at that time mainly a service/dormitory town to the mill facilities. Kinleith was named for the Kinleith paper mills, on the Water of Leith, Scotland by Sir David Henry, who worked there during his papermaking apprenticeship.[7]

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The region around the mill has a long history of commercial forestry, and still produces large quantities of wood today, as shown here in Tokoroa.
The region around the mill has a long history of commercial forestry, and still produces large quantities of wood today, as shown here in Tokoroa.
  1. ^ Pulp mill sets production record - The New Zealand Herald, Monday 13 December 2004
  2. ^ CHH Pulp & Paper (from the Carter Holt Harvey website. Retrieved 2008-2-22.)
  3. ^ Wood Processing (Minestry of Agriculture and Forestry. Retrieved 2008-2-22.)
  4. ^ CHH Pulp & Paper (from the Carter Holt Harvey website. Retrieved 2007-11-27.)
  5. ^ Kinleith (from the Genesis Energy website. Retrieved 2007-11-27.)
  6. ^ Kinleith Mill (from the ABB website. Retrieved 2007-11-27.)
  7. ^ Kinleith (from a 1966 entry of the Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2007-11-27.)

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