Abitibi-Consolidated announced that one of its paper machines at its
Kenora, Ontario will be closed permanently June 15. Additionally, two other
machines will be closed for at least the fall. The shutdowns will reduce the
company’s newsprint capacity by 180,000 metric tons a year.
``We will be working to find economic ways to convert machine no.9 to
produce value-added paper instead of newsprint. Machine no.10 will only restart
when market conditions for newsprint improve,'' said Denis Jean, senior vice
president, Northern Newsprint Operations.
The company also announced today that, in addition to more than 50,000
metric tons of market-related downtime taken in April, a further 50,000 metric
tons will be taken in each of May and June at several of its North American
newsprint mills, bringing the second quarter downtime total to over 150,000
metric tons.
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