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The Bell Bay Pulp Mill, also known as the Tamar Valley Pulp Mill, is a proposed $1.7 billion pulp mill which Gunns Limited is planning to build in the Tamar Valley, near Launceston, Tasmania. The proposed mill will use the Kraft process, Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) bleaching, and be fed with eucalypt forest timber. Construction of the mill is supported by the State Government who argue that the project will generate AUD $6.7 billion in spending over 25 years and create 2000 temporary jobs during the construction phase. Gunns claims its development could create 300 direct jobs and over 1,000 indirect jobs in the George Town area.

The proposed site is near the main shipping port in northern Tasmania, and is zoned heavy industrial. Industry already located at the site include an aluminium smelter, ferro-alloy processing plant, a power station, two operating woodchip mills and other timber processing operations.