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Article: Woodlot owners tour Fulghum Inc. Visitors observe log-to-chip process
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- April 25, 2005
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BAILEYVILLE - The lumberyard Friday was filled with logging trucks
ready to unload their cargo destined for the pulp mill.
It was business as usual at Fulghum Fibres Inc., the main supplier
of wood chips to the nearby Domtar Industries Inc. pulp and paper
mill. "We supply about 70 percent of the chips for Domtar. They buy
30 percent from other sawmills or wherever they can to make it up,"
Fulghum's plant manager, Mark Seavey, said.
A visit from members of the Small Woodland Owners Association of
Maine to the busy wood yard was a first for some.
SWOAM is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and Friday several
members saw the working wood yard, toured Wayne and Peggy Coleman's
woodlot on U.S. ...