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Montreal-based pulp and paper company Tembec Inc. announced this week they will be launching a $190-million cogeneration project at their Témiscamingue site in northwestern Quebec. According to an article published by the Montreal Gazette, “the cogeneration program will replace three old boilers with one modern high-pressure unit burning liquors produced in Tembec’s existing chemicals plants [and] will reduce overall energy costs and boos...

PaperWeek Canada, the annual conference of the Canadians pulp and paper industry, will take place from January 31 to February 2 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal. Touted as a “unique approach of combining business, technical and networking tools that will address issues and questions relative to today’s industry” by Greg M. Hay, the Executive Director of Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada (PAPTAC), the confere...

A £6 million cogeneration facility being built in Alnwick, UK will kick-start a new focus on the renewable energy industry in North-Eastern England, according to business leaders in that region. The new facility will use woodchips and biomass from sustainable sources from a nearby sawmill to produce close to one megawatt of green electricity per year. “We have put a huge amount of time and effort into researching this project over a numb...

Only two months after the closure of a large pulp and paper mill in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, another prominent paper mill is facing a similar threat. AbitibiBowater announced this week it would close its mill just outside of Liverpool, NS if they cannot come up with a strategy that could help it survive. "We talked about weeks for plans to be in place and developed to address the various challenges. So there is a great sense of urgency...