White Birch Paper to start recycled paper machine at Quebec mill

White Birch Paper, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based paper and packaging company, is entering the recycled kraft paper market this month with the startup of a new paper machine at its Stadacona Mill ill in Quebec City, Quebec.

The machine is expected to produce 120,000 metric tons per year of 100 percent recycled kraft paper in a variety of basis weights aimed at serving the e-commerce mailers, packaging medium, retail counter markets and other packaging applications.

White Birch’s recycled kraft paper is made exclusively using postconsumer recycled material via “proprietary techniques” that the company says offer “exceptional” burst and tear strength as well as affordability and eco-friendliness.

“We believe in creating products that are not only functional but also environmentally responsible,” the company says on its website. “By choosing recycled kraft paper, you’re contributing to a greener future and supporting a company that values sustainability.”

The Stadacona Mill produces newsprint, commercial paper, paperboard and now recycled kraft paper, with a combined annual production capacity of more than 250,000 metric tons. It originally was built in 1927 and purchased by White Birch in 2004.

The mill also runs a paperboard machine that produces 45,000 metric tons per year of 100 percent recycled chipboard and specialty paperboard products.

White Birch also has two other mills in Quebec—the F.F. Soucy Mill that produces newsprint and specialty papers and the Papier Masson Mill that produces approximately 240,000 tons of newsprint annually.