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A soon-to-be re-opened pulp mill in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan has begun generating power through its on-site cogeneration facility. The power will be used to run the mill once it’s up and running, and is already contributing to the SaskPower provincial grid. “According to Prince Albert mayor Jim Scarrow, the plant is producing power from the mill's bio-mass boiler and power turbine and the company is now selling back that power,” CT...

A new multi-year contract signed this month solidified a continuing relationship between Lenzing AG and Sappi Ltd. in the dissolving pulp sector. The deal outlines a plan whereby Lenzing – a company that specializes in manufacturing man-made cellulose fibres – will procure dissolving pulp from Sappi in order to manufacture its products. According to a press release issued by Lenzing, the deal “intensifies a long-time cooperation between ...

A pulp mill in Terrace Bay has found a new lease on life thanks to its new owner who intends to transform the facility into a dissolving pulp plant. Indian-owned Aditya Birla Group purchased the northwestern Ontario mill earlier this month through its Canadian subsidiary AV Group. The reported price of purchase for the idled mill was $110 million, according to Pulp and Paper Canada, though the company will invest nearly $250 million more to co...

Domtar Corp. continued its plan to diversify its product line this week by acquiring US-based EAM Corp., a company that mainly produces high quality absorbent composite materials. The US$61 million acquisition will allow Domtar to have easy access to the core materials used in feminine hygiene, adult incontinence, baby diapers and other medical, health-care and performance packaging products. The deal will not only provide Domtar with long-...

Magna Exteriors, a Canadian auto parts maker, has partnered with the Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) to investigate the viability of integrating wood fibre in plastic auto parts. “Currently, Magna moulds a number of components and sub-systems using long glass filled polypropylene (LGFPP) for global automotive manufacturers,” reported Pulp and Paper Canada. “In certain applications glass fibre can be substitu...

A soon-to-be re-opened pulp mill in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan is on track to start generating power from their cogeneration facility by the end of May. “May 15 we’ll fire up and do a lot of check outs and by May 27th we’ll synchronize with the Saskatchewan power grid,” said Dave Patterson, the mill’s general manager. The plant is expected to be producing and selling 10 megawatts of power to the province’s grid once everything ...

Pulp and paper producer Tembec Inc. announced this week they would invest $190 million to upgrade their specialty cellulose plant in Temiscaming, Quebec. The upgrade will replace three old boilers with a new high-pressure boiler that is designed to burn the waste byproduct of the cellulose manufacturing plant. The change will not only increase the mill’s overall capacity by 5,000 metric tonnes but will also create a new co-generation faci...

A mill in Cloquet, Minnesota that has been producing paper-grade pulp for the last 113 years will begin converting its facility so it can make the switch to producing dissolving pulp. The conversion process won’t begin until next month, but Rick Dwyer, the managing director of the Cloquet mill, says the mill should be fully converted by May 2013. “It’s an extremely fast track. It’s kind of scary how fast, actually,’’ he told the...

January 31, 2012 conference call replay - playback on demand dial in number: 1-855-201-2300 Conference Reference Number: 764917 # Conference Pass code: 98030 #  (The Phone number on news release is incorrect) Today, Fortress Paper Ltd.  announced that it has, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fortress Global Cellulose Ltd. ("Fortress Global"), signed an asset purchase agreement (the "APA")with 9109-3294 Quebec Inc., a wholly owned subsi...

Less than a month after specialty paper manufacturer Fortress Paper began its production of specialty cellulose at its facility in Thurso, Quebec, another Canadian paper producer – Glatfelter Gatineau - ramped up production on its specialty products. This week, week the Pennsylvania-based company launched a $9-million production line that sees its Ottawa-valley mill double the output of high-absorbency paper. According to an article publ...