Maine Pulp & Paper: Associate Member Profiles

Associate Member Profiles

AMEC EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL, INC.

AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc., a subsidiary of AMEC, is a full-service environmental science and engineering consulting firm, providing multi-disciplined solutions covering all aspects of environmental services, including human health and ecological risk assessment, water resources, and environmental engineering, critiques of proposed regulations and regulatory comments, air modeling, river modeling, expert witness testimony and litigation support, data management and time-dependent probabilistic exposure modeling. AMEC also offers services in pulp and paper process engineering, geotechnical engineering, and materials testing. AMEC has more than 2,000 scientists, geologists, engineers, biologists, environmental planners located in 90 offices worldwide.

AMEC's Portland Maine practice opened in July 1998 and since that time it has grown to include more than 10 professionals. The specialists in the office are toxicologists, risk assessment scientists, ecologists, and modelers. Recently, the Portland practice has expanded to include two senior process engineers who have years of experience in designing and retrofitting paper machines and mill processes. These two professionals are supported by a team of pulp and paper engineers located in the eastern US and Canada.

These professionals have a unique expertise in assessing the human health and ecological effects of contaminants in aquatic environments. Many of Portland's clients are pulp and paper companies and Fortune 500 companies on projects involving regulatory toxicology and risk assessment issues.

BERCEN, INC.

Bercen, Inc. is a 35-year old company that manufactures specialty chemicals for the pulp and paper industry. Headquartered in Cranston, RI., Bercen is one of the largest suppliers of ASA and provides a complete broad range of coating additives such as lubricants, insolubilizers, surface sizing agents and saturants for the paper industry.

Bercen also has the only patented specialty lubricants for the coating industry. Bercen also offers a complete range of the paper coating additives.

Bercen has 60 employees and two manufacturing facilities one in Cranston, Rhode Island and Denham Springs, Louisiana.

CIANBRO CORPORATION

In 1946, forty years after eleven-year-old Raphael Cianchette boarded a passenger ship alone in Naples, Italy, bound for America, four of his sons-Carl, Ken, Bud, and Chuck Cianchette-locked arms to build a construction empire.

With Ken's and Bud's army savings for seed money and Chuck's 1934 pickup truck as the company vehicle, Carl launched the family enterprise. Incorporated in 1949, Cianbro, now an employee-owned company, is one of the East Coast's largest civil and heavy industrial construction and construction services companies with gross annual sales in excess of $300 million and over 2,000 team members.

Winner of the 2004 AGC's Build America Award, ABC's Excellence in Construction Award, and ACOEM's Corporate Health Achievement Award, Employee-owned, Cianbro is recognized nationally for its safety and wellness programs. For over 50 years, Cianbro has provided services in the following areas: automated distribution centers, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, fabrications and coating, food and beverage processing, fossil fuel, hydro and nuclear power plants, hospitals, large building complexes, parking garages, pulp and paper, semiconductors, transportation and marine infrastructure and water and wastewater facilities.

ENSR INTERNATIONAL

ENSR, a Sustaining Member of NCASI since 2000, and charter MPPA Associate Member, has served the Pulp and Paper Industry with comprehensive environmental, health, safety and due diligence services for 30 years. Engineering News Record named ENSR to the 'Top Ten' All-Environmental Firms from 1994-2004. ENSR received Environmental Business Journal business achievement awards in 2001, 2002 and 2003. ENSR provides clients comprehensive consulting, engineering, remediation and related services in 60 technical disciplines and 100 project specialty areas. ENSR has 45 US offices with a client focus on multinational industrial corporations, forest products and energy companies, mergers and acquisitions. ENSR has completed 70,000 air, water, and waste-related environmental projects.

Since it's founding 35 years ago, ENSR has conducted projects for over 50 forest products companies in North America and Europe. We have worked at every mill location in Maine during that period and continue to provide services that address technical environmental issues.

ENSR Portland, Maine: To serve the needs of forest products companies and other clients in Maine and Atlantic Canada, ENSR has maintained an office in Portland since 1995. ENSR provides the following services for the pulp and paper industry, Capital Project Permitting, Air Quality Permitting and Engineering Ambient Source Sampling, Water Resources Management, Integrated Restoration/Regulatory Site Closure, EHS Management Consulting, Environmental Process Engineering, Environmental Permitting and Compliance, Due Diligence for Property Transfer, Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, Health/Ecological Risk Assessment and Industrial Risk Modeling/Planning.

GUILFORD RAIL SYSTEM

Guilford Rail System is a fully integrated transportation system comprised of four railroads. As an overview, the system is comprised of the Maine Central Railroad Company, the Boston & Maine Corporation, the Portland Terminal Co. and the Springfield Terminal Railway Company. On the inbound routes, the products transported include raw materials to the mills in the form of clay, chemicals, wood pulp and pulpwood logs. Once the product is finished and ready for market the railroad moves the paper in box cars or inter-modal which means in containers or trailers on flat cars.

GRS is also affiliated with GMX, which operates a 117,000 square foot warehouse in Devens, MA to serve as a staging area for our 'forwarding paper program', as well as an inter-modal facility at Devens and in Waterville, Maine. This service allows the mills to stage their paper closer to certain markets by storing and subsequent transloading this paper to truck for just-in-time delivery and to ship and receive products via rail to truck and vice versa.

Guilford Rail spends $20 million in payroll and employs 400 people at a substantial salary per year, including great benefits. Recently, the company spent $3.5 million on the purchase of 141 new 'paper quality' boxcars to supplement the fleet.

Moving product by rail isn't the only thing the company does. In addition, Guilford Rail is also affiliated with other smaller companies within Maine. Guilford Rail is the only railroad affiliated with a processing plant to manufacture new railroad ties and to dispose of the old railroad ties through a process that turns recycles the ties into electricity to run the turbines for the manufacture of the ties. The company is opening a quarry in Emden, Maine as well.

HONEYWELL, INTERNATIONAL INC.

Honeywell International Inc, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, serves the Maine Pulp and Paper Industry from its Westbrook, Maine office. This office, part of Honeywell's Process Solution division, is home to sales, service and projects personnel who serve industrial process control customers in the Northeast.

Honeywell offers pulp and paper customers integrated process control solutions for the entire mill. The systems include Quality Control Systems, Distributed Control Systems, Cross Direction Control Systems, mill instrumentation, advanced sensors, camera systems, and mill information systems. The Honeywell team engineers many of these solutions in Maine and uses the local team to install, integrate, and commission the systems into the paper mill.

In addition, Honeywell employs roughly 40 service personnel in the State of Maine, many of which are assigned to mills on a full-time basis. The service team is responsible for maintaining Honeywell and third-party systems and to being part of the overall mill efficiency and quality effort. Honeywell takes pride in the qualifications, continued training, and process expertise of its service personnel.

The local Honeywell team is supported by manufacturing facilities in North Vancouver, B.C. Canada, and Phoenix, Arizona.

HYSTER NEW ENGLAND

Hyster New England is the distributor of Hyster Lift Trucks in New England. Hyster Company has placed their trust in Hyster New England to represent them for over 35 years. Hyster New England has four facilities throughout New England, totaling over 160,000 square feet, with 170 full time employees. Headquartered in North Billerica, MA, Hyster New England has locations in Scarborough, ME; Concord, NH; Berlin, CT. Hyster New England is one of the ten largest Hyster Dealers in the Nation.

Hyster New England's primary line is Hyster Lift Trucks. Hyster New England provides sales of new and used Lift Trucks to buy or lease, rentals, parts and service for Hyster equipment. Hyster New England also provides parts and service for all competitive forklift trucks. Hyster New England has a Rental Fleet of over 500 trucks to cover short and long term requirements.

Hyster New England has 310,000 parts for all brands of Material Handling Equipment and Remanufactured Parts. They also provide Service for all brands of Material Handling Equipment. Hyster New England is more than just a Lift Truck distributor. They also provide Construction Forklifts, Aerial Work Platforms, Rough Terrain Forklifts, Specialty Forklifts, Industrial Batteries and Chargers, service and parts for this equipment, as well and Storage solutions and Allied Products.

J.D. IRVING LIMITED

J.D. Irving Limited is a family owned business that began over 120 years ago. The company's roots can be traced to a sawmill in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada. Although J.D. Irving Limited began as a forest products company it is now a diversified company involved in industrial construction, shipbuilding modular home manufacturing, agri-services, food services and petroleum products.

The company also operates an integrated sea, rail and transportation network that serves markets in Canada, the U.S. , the Carribean and Europe. In addition, the company produces a wide range of forest products including newsprint, tissue, corrugating medium and kraft pulp. J.D. Irving still owns and operates sawmills in New Brunswick, Maine, Nova Scotia and Quebec. The company also owns 3.5 million acres of forestland in Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and manages another 2.5 million acres of crown land. J.D. Irving home office is located in Saint John, New Brunswick. The company also operates a chain of home improvement stores in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, New Foundland and Prince Edward Island. The company has 15,000 employees.

MERRILL'S MARINE TERMINAL

Sprague Energy purchased the Operating Company, Merrill's Marine Terminal and it's assets from PD Merrill. Merrill had been working with Sprague Energy during 2004 to help Sprague develop break bulk and forest products handling at its Searsport Terminal. The synergies became apparent early on and the transaction was put on a fast track. In 1929, Merrill's started as a diversified trucking business. Forty years ago, Merrill's pioneered rail to truck transfer of liquid such as latex and chemicals for the paper industry. In 1982, Merrill's Marine Terminal began operations.

Merrill's specializes in handling bulk and break-bulk cargos such as coal for cogeneration plants, export and import paper and wood pulp. Merrill's handles bulk and break-bulk products at the same terminal. . The terminal sees some 75 to 80 ships each year in port.

The Portland based Merrill Marine Terminal employs 44 full time and 30 part time people. The paper industry comprises about 2/3 of Merrill's business. Sprague Energy and its newly acquired Merrill Marine Terminal is now positioned to service the Maine Pulp and Paper Industry from Searsport, Portland, South Portland, and Southern NH. Sprague Energy provides Liquid and Dry Bulk, Break Bulk, and Container Loading and Drayage Services to the paper industry

NALCO COMPANY

Nalco is a provider of integrated water treatment and process improvement services, chemicals and equipment programs for industrial and institutional applications. The company currently serves more than 60,000 customer locations representing a broad range of end markets. It has established a global presence with over 10,000 employees operating in 130 countries supported by a comprehensive network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and research centers. In 2003, Nalco achieved sales of $2.8 billion.

Nalco's grade-based offering focuses on reducing total cost of operation, increasing machine productivity, improving sheet properties and enhancing finished product performance. Nalco's grade-based offering provides specific solutions to the tissue and towel grades, mechanical grades, printing and writing grades, and board and packaging.

Nalco also focuses on water-related problems in areas of the pulp mill and paper machine by managing the water chemistry to achieve significant reductions in fiber and energy consumption. Nalco's fiber management approach provides opportunities to reduce customers' total cost of operation and utilize a broader range of recycled fibers while improving the quality of the pulp delivered to the paper mill and the stability of the process.

Nalco for 75 years has been investing in innovation. In addition to the research center in Naperville, Illinois, Nalco recently added the Papermaking Center of Excellence in Helsinki, Finland. This expands Nalco's ability to conduct technical research in the chemical and mechanical interfaces in papermaking.

NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR

National Semiconductor has operated in South Portland since 1987 and employs 650 employees in Maine. The Maine facility specializes in the manufacturing of integrated circuits - 'chips.' The chips are made on 8 inch silicon wafers, and each circuit drives the electronics for products like cell phones, DVD's, cars, video displays, digital cameras and many more electronic consumer products. After the wafers are made in Maine, National ships the product to Southeast Asia for final finishing and shipment to customers. National's major customers include Dell Computers, Ericsson, Kyocera, LG and Matsushita.

The Maine location recently completed an audit by Bosch, an automotive supplier, and was ranked #1 out of all of the fabrication facilities Bosch audited. Within the past eighteen months the company also reached a milestone. On two separate occasions, the company celebrated 1 million man-hours without a lost time injury.

National believes in helping in the communities where our employees live and matches employee contributions to their favorite organizations. National is a great supporter of Maine education and has provided over $1 million for K-12 professional development and recognition for teachers since 1997.

NEW ENGLAND ORGANICS

Established in 1983, New England Organics specializes in creating cost effective beneficial uses for residual byproducts of the paper industry. New England Organics employs 45 people in the Northeast and manages over 400,000 wet tons of residuals annually. In addition, New England Organics also has the largest composting facility in New England and multiple landfills in New England and New York.

The company specializes in recycling residual waste into a commodity, although it provides landfill disposal, as well. The Company manages such residual wastes as: woody wastes, precipitated calcium carbonate, lime mud, sludge or short paper fiber, green liquors, dregs and ash. New England Organics handles all aspects of the process including collection, transportation, processing, and final distribution or landfill disposal. Operations include: composting, farm land application, land reclamation, product sales and marketing. New England Organics provides ancillary services such as oversight of regulatory compliance, risk management, and public education. Once the materials are laboratory tested and characterized, New England Organics can obtain permits for beneficial use and then put the material to use. The company manufactures and sells over 90,000 cubic yards of compost a year under the name EarthLife'. Their programs have benefited hundreds of farms and private and municipal landfill closures with reduced costs and high performing materials.

New England Organics has been recognized with a number of awards for outstanding service. In 2000, New England Organics received the Maine Governor's Environmental Excellence Award in the category of Sustainable Development and in 2001, the USEPA honored the company with a National Special Recognition Award for Exemplary Biosolids Management.

New England Organics is a division of Casella Waste Systems, which is traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange.

PAVILION TECHNOLOGIES

Pavilion Technologies provides the Pulp and Paper Industry with Quality Measurement and Control Solutions. Pavilion's Performance Management technology leverages the Mill's existing QCS and DCS investments to arm pulp and paper manufacturers with a capital-efficient approach to maximize production efficiency, produce higher quality product for less, and meet environmental regulatory requirements.

Founded in 1991, Pavilion Technologies provides Advanced Process Control (APC) solutions and environmental compliance solutions for leading manufacturers in the petrochemical, cement, ethanol, dairy and paper industries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Pavilion has approximately 140 Scientist, Engineers and Staff operating in throughout the US, Europe and Australia. Pavilion capitalizes on a portfolio 100 plus patents covering the field of Predictive Modeling, Sensor Validation, Property Prediction, and Process Optimization. Pavilion's technology is used every day by more than 350 of the largest enterprises in the world to increase production, enhance product quality, achieve environmental compliance, and enhance profitability.

Pavilion provides the following services for the paper industry: On-line sensor validation and calibration, Off-line Paper Quality measurements for On-Line control, Property Measurement, Performance Characterization, Asset Performance and Paper Machine Control Continuous Emissions Monitoring.

SEVEE & MAHER ENGINEERS

Sevee & Maher Engineers (SME) is in its twentieth year of providing professional services to the pulp and paper industry. SME's 15 licensed professional engineers and 4 certified geologists specialize in the following areas: landfill engineering, groundwater remediation, infrastructure engineering, environmental permitting, construction engineering, water supply engineering, site remediation and wastewater treatment.

Sevee & Maher Engineers has a full-range geo-technical testing laboratory to support its client's needs and project staff. The company also provides field construction testing equipment and personnel. SME's environmental technicians can provide on-site and in-situ analyses of air, water and soil media for a wide variety of parameters.

SME provides consulting services to a variety of industrial and manufacturing facilities up and down the east coast. SME personnel are licensed in Maine, New Hampshire, Georgia, Massachusetts, Colorado, Ohio, South Carolina, Florida, New York, Michigan, North Carolina and New Jersey.

TAMBRANDS MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Tambrands, located in Auburn, Maine, began operation in 1968, and was acquired by Procter & Gamble in 1997 as part of the global Tambrands Inc. business. Tambrands is one of 37 P&G plants in the U.S. and produces Tampax tampons primarily for the North American market. The Auburn Facility is the only plant in North American that produces Tampax products. The plant has 445,000 square feet. Facilities include: fiber processing; material receiving and storage; finished product making, packing, warehousing, and shipping operations; machine shop; office space; engineering space and quality lab. The plant currently employs about 650 men and women. Procter & Gamble, founded in 1837, is a Fortune 500 consumer products corporation marketing more than 300 brands to five billion consumers in 140 countries. These brands include Tide, Crest, Pantene, Pringles, Pampers, Iams, Olay, Vicks and Tampax. The Tampax' Tampon is the product manufactured here in Auburn.

P&G has on the ground operations in over 70 countries and employs more than 100,000 people worldwide. The plant direct payroll is about $19 million dollars annually. In addition, Procter & Gamble contributes over $45 million annually to the Maine economy in purchases of material, freight, supplies, and services. Hundreds of additional people are employed providing those purchases. P&G paid over $2.5 million in state and local taxes in calendar year 2001. Contributions to local charitable, educational, and civic organizations by the plant and its employees total over 140 thousand dollars each year. P&G is committed to operating in an environmentally responsible manner. The Company has an Environmental Quality Policy, which publicly affirms this commitment and unites P&G people around the world in fulfilling it. Though P&G is already widely recognized for its environmental leadership, it continually focuses on improving the environmental performance of its products, packages and processes.

WOODARD & CURRAN

Woodard & Curran is more than just an engineering firm. The company, founded in 1979 by Al Curran and Frank Woodard, also specializes in operating plant facilities across the country. Woodard & Curran offers a host of other services, including water and wastewater treatment, river modeling, permitting, geographic and environmental information systems, operator training, hazardous waste, and air compliance/treatment.

Woodard & Curran works with industry, government and municipal clients to design and manage operations efficiently. The company has assisted the pulp & paper industry for over 25 years. Woodard & Curran's engineers, scientists, and operations specialists focus on cost-effective, strategic, and tactical solutions.

Woodard & Curran employs 460 people and has offices in Bangor, Portland, Manchester, NH, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York.