Fortress Paper Ltd.

At the recent Brazilian Technical Pulp and Paper Association (ABTCP) Pulp and Paper International Congress & Exhibition, pulp and paper exhibition and congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil, pulp and paper leaders noted a movement towards biotechnology despite market downturns in the industry. Due to the international economic crisis, Brazilian pulp and paper exports fell this year.  Despite predictions that the market downturn will continue, the ...

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Pulp and paper producer Tembec Inc. has officially inaugurated 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. The announcement of the investment was made earlier this year.  The upgrade is phase one of an overall $310-million investment. Funding for this investment was provided mainly by the Government of Canada with $19....

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) congratulates the federal government for the "unprecedented success" of its $1 billion Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Fund (PPGTP) and it’s continued commitment to the ongoing transformation of the Canadian forest products sector. A new FPAC report was released on this phase of the government’s ongoing strategic support for the industry.  FPAC found that the program has funded 98 proje...

Nova Scotia’s provincial government announced yesterday it would contribute $124.5 million to re-open an idle paper mill in Port Hawkebury. The NewPage mill closed nearly a year ago in September 2011. The multi-million dollar deal they have offered would help Pacific West Commercial Corp. – the owners of the mill – re-start and reinvigorate the facility and the workforce in the region. “We have indeed done everything we can to keep ...

Last week, the Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) published a report detailing its new commitment to preserving natural resources on the continent. The Sustainability Roadmap for 2020 focuses on improving environmental performance, biodiversity conservation and protection of community rights. “APP’s Roadmap reflects upon a paradigm of the way that Indonesian companies are shaping up for the challenges and opportunities of the next decade...

Three months after the closure of the NewPage mill in Port Hawkesbury, NS, four companies interested in purchasing the shuttered mill are due to submit their final bids this week. Though two of the bidders remain unnamed, the CBC says that Paper Excellence Canada and Stern Partners Inc. are the other parties who are vying for the mill and – should they win – are expected to maintain the mill as some sort of paper manufacturing facility. Th...

Resolute Forest Products, one of Canada’s largest pulp and paper companies, announced it’s intention to acquire a popular pulp producer with mills in Canada and the US. Fibrek produces virgin and recycled kraft pulp at mills located in Saint-Félicien, Québec, Fairmont, West Virginia, and in Menominee, Michigan with a combined annual production capacity of 760,000 tonnes. According to Richard Garneau, president and CEO of Resolute, the p...

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...

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...