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Installation of the cContinuous Screen on the Fourdrinier
Installation of the cContinuous Screen on the Fourdrinier

Date: March 15th, 1971
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. William Brebner, Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: Workers are installing a belted continuous screen(meshed wire) on the Fourdrinier, part of the Number 8 paper machine. This screen would flatten the pulp and begin the process of turning the stock into a paper sheet. Water in the paper stock would be drained by a suction device placed under the screen belt.

Subject: Maine, Logging, Paper Industry, Madawaska