Fortress Paper Ltd.

With the recent acquisition of a pulp mill in Lebel-sur-Quévillon, Fortress Paper will add a second dissolving pulp facility to its production line. The mill was previously owned by Domtar but had been closed since 2005. The Northern Québec town has a long history of pulp and paper manufacturing. In fact, it was founded in the mid 1940s by loggers who arrived in the remote area to send logs down the Bell River. The industry really began to...

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...

The Globe & Mail three part series called ‘Talking to Entrepreneurs’ featured Chad Wasilenkoff, CEO Fortress Paper. In part three of the Globe and Mail’s Small Business Editor Katherine Scarrow’s feature video interview with Fortress Paper CEO Chad Wasilenkoff, where she called Chad Wasilenkoff, Fortress Paper a “born entrepreneur”. Fortress Paper CEO Chad Wasilenkoff discusses growing up an entrepreneur, and why he's always...

Fortress Paper Ltd. CEO Chad Wasilenkoff appeared on the Business News Network this week to talk about the resurgence of the Canadian forestry sector thanks to diversification of products and forward thinking attitudes in the industry. The forestry sector has “gone through a couple of challenging decades,” he said on Tuesday. “So we now need to change that sector and drive forth with new innovation and cutting edge technology to remain ...

After several years of downturn, Ottawa’s historic pulp & paper region is on the road to recovery thanks to new innovations in the sector. “The Ottawa region’s forest products firms are rebounding as the industry shifts from an emphasis on pulp and newsprint to specialty, high-end products,” the Ottawa Citizen reported this week. Over the last decade, companies such as Glatfelter Inc. have doubled their plant’s capacity where they...

by CHAD WASILENKOFF Push aside dated notions of our global forestry sector as dominated by lumberjacks focused solely on logging trees and processing the wood. Today’s forests are increasingly high-tech with employees skilled in biochemistry, genetics, computer modeling, satellite imagery, and digital processing. Today’s bio-economy is a dynamic global market that mirrors a paradigm shift to products that originate from natural renew...

The installation of four 110-ton boilers on site at the Thurso pulp mill this week not only marks a crucial step in converting the mill to a full-time specialized dissolving pulp producer, it also marks the beginning of some other notable changes for the Quebec facility. Construction on a brand new 25-megawatt cogeneration plant will begin this summer. Capturing excess heat and steam from the process of making dissolving pulp, the cogeneratio...

CEO’s, senior executives, customers, suppliers, and government policy makers gathered in Vancouver, BC this week for the 24th Annual Global Forest & Paper Industry Conference. Hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the conference is an opportunity for members of the industry from many different sectors to come together to discuss current markets, emerging trends, and the outlook for the global industry. This year’s conference put a stron...

In the midst of one of the most turbulent and uncertain periods for the pulp and paper industry worldwide, a resumed interest in one product is helping the industry turn around: dissolving pulp. Also known as specialty cellulose, dissolving pulp is no ordinary wood pulp. It is a highly refined pulp used in products such as cellophane, film and computer chips. It’s primary use, however, is in the creation of rayon, a human-made, silk-like p...