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Thursday, 20 December 2012 11:30
Domtar closes one line at Kamloops
Domtar will permanently shut down one pulp machine at its Kamloops, B.C., facility, putting 125 employees out of work and curtailing Domtar's annual pulp production by approximately 120,000 air-dried metric tons of sawdust softwood pulp. The pulp machine, known at…
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Tuesday, 18 December 2012 12:09
Canadian Fair Rail Freight Service Act is a Step in the Right Direction - Resolute Forest Products
Resolute Forest Products welcomes the Government of Canada's introduction of Bill C-52, the Fair Rail Freight Service Act, which will provide a framework to make railways more accountable to their customers for providing acceptable levels of service. The bill is…
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012 08:50
Resolute Announces Sale of Mersey Assets
Resolute Forest Products Inc. has announced that the province of Nova Scotia, represented by the minister of the Department of Economic and Rural Development and Tourism, has completed the purchase of all the shares of Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited…
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Thursday, 29 November 2012 11:30
Catalyst Paper identifies bidder for Snowflake mill assets
Catalyst Paper announced that it has accepted a qualified stalking horse bid from MLR Ventures, LLC (the Stalking Horse) as part of the sales process for disposition of the Snowflake facility and Apache Railway. “We have received a $12.0 million…
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Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:40
Resolute Forest Products Announces Indefinite Idling of Kraft Mill and Paper Machine in Fort Frances
Resolute Forest Products on the 20th November has announced the indefinite idling of the kraft mill and paper machine number 5 (PM5) at its pulp and paper operation in Fort Frances, Ontario. The kraft mill has an annual production capacity…
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Tuesday, 20 November 2012 18:58
Cascades Receives 2012 Green Supply Chain Award
Cascades is the proud recipient of a 2012 Green Supply Chain Award for its sustainable approach to its supply chain. It will be listed along with other award winners in the December issue of the American magazine Supply & Demand…
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Monday, 19 November 2012 09:45
Resolute Forest Products Increases FSC® Certification from 51% to 65%
Resolute Forest Products (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) has certified an additional 3.5 million hectares (8.6 million acres) of Company-managed forestlands in Quebec to Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC) standards. These new certifications raise the total area of Resolute tenures that are…
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Thursday, 15 November 2012 10:30
FITNIR Analyzers Collaborating with FPInnovations on New Developments
FITNIR Analyzers Inc. is pleased to announce its recently signed strategic research agreement with FPInnovations.The partners will jointly develop new measurement technologies, for both online and offline systems, focusing on the advantages of spectroscopy solutions. “Strategically, we are very excited…
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Thursday, 08 November 2012 19:37
Resolute Forest Products Announces Two Major Investments in its Comtois and Senneterre Sawmills.
Resolute ForestProducts has announced two major investments today, totaling C$11 million, at its Comtois sawmill in Lebel-sur-Quévillon, Quebec, and its Senneterre, Quebec, sawmill. At the Comtois sawmill, $9 million will be invested in the construction of a new saw line.…
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Tuesday, 06 November 2012 19:42
Resolute Forest Products permanent shutdown of paper machine at its Laurentide mill
Resolute Forest Products has announced that it is permanently shutting down paper machine No. 10 at its Laurentide mill in Shawinigan, Quebec. The permanent shutdown comes after an important drop in demand and an increase in market capacity of the…
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Friday, 02 November 2012 10:00
Resolute Forest Products Issues Sustainability Report for 2011 Performance
Resolute Forest Products released its Sustainability Report for 2011 Performance, detailing Company efforts to balance environmental, social and economic considerations. The report also publicly introduces Resolute's first company-wide sustainability strategy which has three primary areas of focus: Reinforce Resolute's environmental…
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Wednesday, 24 October 2012 11:03
Charges laid in fatal explosion at Terrace Bay Pulp
Terrace Bay Pulp, a mechanical contractor, and three individuals are facing charges in connection with a fatal explosion at the pulp mill last October. T.J. Berthelot was killed in the explosion. According to CBC.ca, Terrace Bay Pulp and Venshore Mechanical…
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Thursday, 04 October 2012 08:22
Point Tupper paper rolls again
The first roll came off the supercalendered paper machine at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday, a major milestone for the Point Tupper mill many once left for dead. The former NewPage Port Hawkesbury paper mill, rechristened Port Hawkesbury Paper LLC by new…
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Wednesday, 03 October 2012 21:53
Tembec inaugurates anaerobic treatment facility at pulp mill in Matane, Québec
Tembec officially inaugurated today a new anaerobic treatment facility which will produce methane biogas and greatly reduce the use of fossil fuels at its high-yield pulp mill in Matane, Québec. Dignitaries from the surrounding region and members of Tembec’s senior…
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:44
Deal reached, Port Hawkesbury workers head back to work
Only one day after the intended buyer of a closed pulp and paper mill in Nova Scotia announced the deal was off, a new financial agreement with the provincial government and utilities regulator has put the sale of the mill…
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