White Birch sets $22/tonne June 15 price increase on 45-g newsprint (RISI)

For 170 years, Domtar has manufactured useful products for thousands of applications. For the past 20 years, pulp and paper have been at the center of our business. Domtar’s Paper division is the largest integrated manufacturer and marketer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America. We are the private brand expert and leading producer of many of the most successful brands of copy paper and we produce and market a number of highly respected, well-known commercial printing, publishing, digital and inkjet paper brands. Our network of mills and converting sites give us 3 million tons of papermaking capacity annually to help us to serve our customers, support our employees and strengthen our communities. That’s how our paper makes life better every day. Domtar is a global manufacturer with a history spanning more than 150 years. Click Read More below for additional information.

To ensure a viable, profitable future for the Rumford Division, ND Paper will be transforming the mill to increase its product flexibility and shift further into packaging grades. Notable changes include: • Commissioning of an unbleached recycled pulp line to provide fiber flexibility to the R12 and R15 paper machines • Conversion of its R15 paper machine from P&W papers into lightweight, high strength kraft linerboard products • Expansion of R12 paper machine capability to include unbleached recycled bag and converting papers, in addition to its current offering of bleached and unbleached papers • Continued operation of the R9 pulp dryer, including expansion into unbleached softwood kraft market pulp • Permanent curtailment of mechanical pulping operations and R15 coating and supercalender assets

Fedrigoni has set the goal for 2030 to have 100% of its special paper families with a verified level of recyclability according to the Aticelca 501/19 method, one of the most rigorous and in line with current regulations. If the paper product falls into one of the four recyclability classes (A+, A, B, C), it means that it can be collected in paper and recycled in paper mills, and the company is authorized to use the “Recyclable with paper – Aticelca® 501” mark for commercial purposes. More intense colors can generate a drop in recylability class (for example, bringing the classification from an A+ level to an A level if going from a light color to a more intense one), limit the use of paper, or require a greater use of colors or coatings to cover intensely colored fibers. In addition, the recycling of differently colored and deep papers leads to the creation of gray recycled papers, with optical inhomogeneity; these papers can only be used for limited applications (for example, inside a box). At Fedrigoni, we recover our colored paper waste through a color flow (from white to black) to maximize its optical homogeneity.