CAQA Riverside Pulp and Paper: simulated pulp and paper manufacturing workplace by CAQA

About CAQA Riverside Pulp and Paper: simulated pulp and paper manufacturing workplace by CAQA

CAQA Riverside Pulp and Paper makes packaging papers from recovered fibre and plantation woodchip at an integrated mill in the Latrobe Valley.

CAQA Riverside Pulp and Paper makes packaging papers from recovered fibre and plantation woodchip at an integrated mill in the Latrobe Valley. The mill produces about 190,000 tonnes a year of linerboard and fluting for corrugated box makers, together with a smaller volume of bleached kraft pulp sold to tissue and specialty paper customers. Recovered cardboard and office paper arrive from collection contractors and the Dandenong South depot, woodchip arrives by truck from plantation contractors, and finished reels leave by road and rail to box plants across south-eastern Australia. The business supplies packaging converters, food and beverage manufacturers, fresh produce exporters and export pulp buyers.

The mill runs continuously on a four-panel, twelve-hour rotating roster with day and night crews. Operations are organised into Pulping, Stock Preparation and the Paper Machine; Recovered Fibre and De-inking; Steam, Power, Water and Chemical Recovery; Finishing, Converting and Warehouse; Health, Safety and Environment; and Site Leadership, Planning and Quality. The kraft pulp line includes a digester, brown stock washing, bleach plant and a chemical recovery loop with a recovery boiler and lime kiln. The power boiler and turbine supply most of the site's steam and electricity, and the effluent treatment plant discharges to the river under licence.

No tonne of paper is worth an injury. Every task starts with a hazard check and every person can stop a job.

The mill draws on the river and the forest and returns clean water and low emissions, and reports openly on both.

Customers plan their box plants around Riverside reels arriving on time and on specification, every time.

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