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Mill Workers
Diecomposition of  Bark
Diecomposition of Bark

Date: Jan. 1972
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Raymond Burton

Description: M.Raymond Burton works at the Fraser pulp mill in Edmundston. Here we can see bark soaked with ammonia. This process decomposed bark faster. Decomposed bark was intended for the potato fields but the project never materialized.

Subject: New Brunswick, Logging, Pulp Industry, Staff, Edmundston