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Prudhoe Mill Prudhoe Mill Unifibres - extensive use of recycled fibres in our process, upwards of 84 tta DACW - Fully automatic warehousing capability of 50 k pallets Mother Reel Storage - Storage capacity of 1900 tonnes Converting - 6

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Prudhoe Mill

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DACW

  • Fully automatic warehousing

capability of 50 k pallets

Mother Reel Storage -

Storage capacity of 1900 tonnes

Unifibres

  • extensive use of recycled fibres in
  • ur process, upwards of 84 tta

Converting

  • 6 Rolled Toilet Tissue Lines
  • 1 Folded AFH Line

Paper Machines

– 1 conventional & 1 TAD technology

Pulpyard

  • Virgin & recycled fibre storage &
  • ther raw materials

Prudhoe Mill

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Site History

  • 1970

Kimberly Clark Start Tissue Converting

  • 1971

No 1 Tissue Machine (P1) Start-Up

  • 1978

Unifibres Start-Up

  • 1982

P2 TAD Machine Start-Up & Site Expansion

  • 1996

Purchased by SCA

  • 1999

Trade Name VELVET Adopted for Brand

  • 2003

Rebuild of P1 to Include Latest Technology

  • 2006

New IDC complete

  • 2012

E-save Capex Projects & Unifibres Paper yard extension

  • 2013

Asda Embosser Upgrade

  • 2014

P2 hoods replaced to allow speed up

  • f TAD Machine
  • 2015

L8 embosser Installation

  • 2016 L9 embosser / site infrastructure investment

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Products from Prudhoe

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Dual Business Strategy – Branded products and Private Label

Branded Products

  • Velvet and Quilted Velvet
  • Cushelle
  • Tork paper towels - investment in a new production line enabled SCA to

switch production from mainland Europe to Prudhoe – making zigzag-folding paper towels in the UK for the first time.

Private Label – for all major retailers, ASDA principle customer

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Machine History

1971 Installation (Beloit)

  • Dual Layer Head Box
  • Crescent Former
  • 5.1 Metre deckle
  • Major Rebuild in 2003

Site Assets & Capabilities / PM1

Key Product Factors

  • Layered tissue
  • Smooth Sheet
  • High Strength
  • Tight Sheet structure

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Machine History

1982 Installation (KMW/Valmet/Metso)

  • Twin wire inverted S Wrap former
  • TAD Dryer 4.9 M
  • Yankee Dryer 4.6 M
  • 4.92 Metre deckle

2005 Rebuild (mimic Webs machine) 2014 P2 Hoods replaced 2015 Deckle increased to 5.12 m

Site Assets & Capabilities / PM2

Key product factors – TAD quality benefits

  • High Softness
  • Sheet structure
  • High Bulk
  • Tensiles
  • Brightness

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Conventional vs. TAD

Conventional TAD

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We manufacture 800 million toilet rolls per year If unrolled and joined end to end we make enough paper every day to go once around the equator with a little spare We make enough tissue to cover a football pitch every 15 seconds Every 10 minutes we make enough tissue to stretch from Prudhoe to Newcastle It takes 2 hours to produce a toilet roll from raw material to loading

  • n to the wagon for

delivery

Interesting Prudhoe Facts….

We are the largest mill in the UK group with just over 400 employees Or on a more cosmic scale the paper would reach the moon in a week!

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SCA Chain of Custody

In 2015 SCA set a new sustainability target that all sites would Chain of Custody Certified and all fibre would be either be a minimum of Controlled Wood or recycled.

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2016 Group Fibre usage - summary

FEb 17th 2015 2015 SAP Pulp report S.Begg & D.Lythgoe 10

Total SCA Hygiene 5,295,585 tonnes of fibre purchased European Market pulp 1,422,637t 2,868,599 tonnes virgin pulp incld Mannheim

41% 22% Americas market Pulp 101,644t

Fluff pulp 417,867t Vinda market pulp 727,391t 2,426,986 tonnes of PfR (46% of total supply) 100% virgin purchased with CoC 199,000t PEFC Pulp Mannheim

1,368t Bamboo

1,257t Cotton Linter 5,437t Cotton Combers

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Multi-site Certificates

In 2011 SCA amalgamated the individual tissue mills COCs into Multi-site Chain of Custody Certificates for both FSC and PEFC. In 2014 the Personal Care sites were added to the certificates. In 2015 Russian and US sites were added. The certificates now currently cover 54 sites, and all sales

  • ffices.

Currently we are working to certify sites in Mexico, & Canada The Head Office for the certificates is Prudhoe Mill.

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Europe

Certified sales in 2016 – 1M tonnes Forecast for 2017 is 1,5M tonnes. Average around 600 logo approvals per year. Managed by 3 people, with assistance of trained auditors. All ordering and sales processing for COC is manged by a bespoke SAP system.

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Site Health & Safety Standards

The above applies to ALL Visitors

No Jewellery to be worn when in areas mandatorily requiring safety footwear.

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