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A6 Quinte BIG & small Domtar's 'closed-loop' system keeps water clean at corrugated-paper plant By Chris Malette The Intelligencer I TRENTON -- A year ago, 12 tonnes of dissolved organic paper and wood pulp byproducts were pumped daily by the Domtar corrugated cardboard mill here into the Trent River and on to the Bay of Quinte. In January, company officials, provincial and local politicians marked .the first full year of successful operation of a new "closed loop" treatment system. The water that flows from the plant "is as clean as the river water" that Domtar pumps into the plant *lt's no good having a for paper-making. Hailed as the first fat wallet if the system of its kind in environment of the North America, the closed loop system got province is not healthy * a nod of approval from Environment Minister Norm Sterling at ceretransformed a 69-year-old facilmonies in the plant's pulp ity with aging technology into mill. Sterling said Domtar's a mill with a promising future. commitment to both the envi"There is a bright and ronment and a sound financial profitable future for this future have shown a "terrific mill," said Fitzgibbon of the commitment" by the compafacility that has a payroll of ny that operates 14 mills in $20 million. the province. Though there were rumors "It's no good having a fat Fitzgibbon and Domtar presiwallet," said Sterling, "if the dent and CEO Raymond Royer environment of the province is might announce a new second not healthy." mill at the Trenton site, Royer All contaminated discharge only hinted that the $100 milfrom' the mill, which had been lion investment of a "second tagged by environmental stud- paper machine here" could ies as a major contributing come about if continued comfactor in worsening conditions mitment and profitability are of the Bay of Quinte downshown by employees at the stream from the Trent River, Trenton plant. has now been eliminated, said Domtar's vice president of research, Bob Earner. Earner said laboratory trials began on the closed loop evaporation process in 1991 and the system cost about $10 million to perfect. Dissolved solids from the process are used in a road dust binder called Dombind, which has been made available to a variety of municipalities and companies for trials in recent years. Domtar senior vice president Pierre Fitzgibbon said improvements at the mill have