Conversions

Strathmore will convert its Millers Falls, Mass., mill over the labor Day weekend. The mill makes 30 tons daily of cotton-content and sulfite bonds, onion-skins, opaques and erasables, and tracing and chart papers.
Island Paper Mills Co., a joint subsidiary of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. and Fraser Inc., converted May 10, 1989. it makes 400 tons daily of bond, tablet, register bond, writing, book, litho, offset, mimeo, duplicator, envelope and tag in its mill in New Westminster, British Columbia. Its papers are listed in the Fine Paper Directory, but its merchants are not listed anywhere because there are so many of them. Some of the chains they use, though, are Barber-Ellis Fine Papers, MacMillan Bloedel, Coast and Crown Paper. The mill can send samples and tell callers where the nearest merchant would be: call 604/526-8551. All their copy papers come in colors as well as white.
Boise Cascade's Wallula, Washington, mill was scheduled for conversion on August 15 at press time. It makes 590 tons daily of uncoated fine papers.