Corner Brook Pulp shuts down paper machine for 8 weeks

Mar 4, 2009 | In Mill Closures & Layoffs | 1 feedback »

Kruger's Corner Brook Pulp and Paper in Newfoundland is shutting down its No. 4 paper machine for 8 weeks - from March 22 to May 17.

30 union workers will be on temporary lay off.

The move is part of the 25,000-tonne curtailment in production Kruger announced earlier this year. The eight-week shutdown will account for 13,000 tonnes of that reduction in Kruger’s operations.

Kruger will also shut down the No. 2 and No. 7 machines at the Corner Brook mill for a 72-hour period following the restart of No. 4, which will account for another 2,000 tonnes of production taken out of the system.

Source:
Corner Brook mill to shut down paper machine for eight weeks (The Telegram)

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Comment from: Jimrow [Visitor]
Largely an off-shore mill, CBPP sells in South America and Western Europe, parts of the world that have been hit hard by the economic downturn. The news doesn't get any better - a new newsprint mill (capacity of 400 000 MT) is starting up in Great Britain in mid 2009, thereby depriving, once it runs at capacity, a like amount of imports from Canadian and Nordic mills.
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