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The Kinleith Mill is a pulp and paper plant located at Kinleith,
Tokoroa
Tokoroa ( mi, Te Kaokaoroa o Pātetere) is the fifth-largest town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand and largest settlement in the South Waikato District. Located 30 km southwest of Rotorua, close to the foot of the M ...
, New Zealand. It is one of eight mills operating in the New Zealand
pulp and paper industry
The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard and other cellulose-based products.
Manufacturing process
The pulp is fed to a paper machine where it is formed as a paper web an ...
. It is currently operated by Oji Fibre Solutions, formerly
Carter Holt Harvey
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Carter Holt Harvey Limited is a privately-owned New Zealand-based company controlled by Rank Group Limited, the corporate vehicle of the country's richest man, Graeme Hart. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, the company has three main div ...
Kinleith Mill has a production of approximately 330,000 tonnes of
paper
Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed ...
grades per year, plus 265,000 tonnes of predominantly bleached
pulp
Pulp may refer to:
* Pulp (fruit), the inner flesh of fruit
Engineering
* Dissolving pulp, highly purified cellulose used in fibre and film manufacture
* Pulp (paper), the fibrous material used to make paper
* Molded pulp, a packaging material
* ...
.
The site boasts its own
cogeneration
Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time.
Cogeneration is a more efficient use of fuel or heat, because otherwise- wasted heat from elect ...
plant operated by
Genesis Energy, which burns wood waste and generates approximately 40
MW used mainly on-site, with the rest of the required electricity mainly coming via a 110 kV transmission line direct from the nearby
Arapuni Dam. The mill is Tokoroa’s largest employer, with some 450 employees and 280 additional subcontractors, mainly from
ABB
ABB Ltd. is a Swedish- Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. The company was formed in 1988 when Sweden's Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA) and Switzerland's Brown, Boveri & Cie merged to create ...
. A cycleway path runs between the mill and Tokoroa township.
Kinleith was established as a sawmill community and dedicated timber forests serving it were planted from 1924 on, with a heavy duty railway reaching the facility in 1952 (
Kinleith Branch
The Kinleith Branch railway line is located in the Waikato region of New Zealand. The line was constructed by the Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway Company, Taupo Totara Timber Company and rebuilt by the Public Works Department primarily to ser ...
line), and the mill itself commencing production in 1953. Tokoroa was at that time mainly a service/dormitory town to the mill facilities. Kinleith was built by
New Zealand Forest Products
New Zealand Forest Products (NZFP) was New Zealand's largest industrial company from its creation (following the consolidation of the New Zealand timbermilling sector) in 1936 until the privatisation of state-owned Telecom New Zealand in 1990. ...
and named for the Kinleith paper mills, on the
Water of Leith
The Water of Leith (Scottish Gaelic: ''Uisge Lìte'') is the main river flowing near central Edinburgh, Scotland, and flows into the port of Leith where it flows into the sea via the Firth of Forth.
Name
The name ''Leith'' may be of Britto ...
,
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...
by Sir
David Henry KBE, who worked there during his papermaking apprenticeship.
Kinleith
(from a 1966 entry of the Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2007-11-27.)
See also
*List of paper mills
This is a list of paper mills sorted by country.
Algeria
* GIPEC SPA, Baba-Ali Mill, Bilda
Argentina
* Papel Prensa, San Pedro Pulp and Paper Mill, San Pedro, Buenos Aires Province
Australia
* ABC Tissue Products, Sydney
* Asaleo Ca ...
References
External links
Official website
{{South Waikato District
Pulp and paper mills in New Zealand
Industrial buildings in New Zealand
Buildings and structures in Waikato
Tokoroa