Company At A Glance

Earnings (Year ended December 31, 2007)
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Net Earnings (Loss):
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Operating Earnings (Loss):
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Production Capacity
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Paper:
Pulp and Containerboard:
Shares listed
Corporate office
Mills
Employees

Industry position

Largest mechanical paper producer in western North America (and the only producer of lightweight coated paper in the region).
Largest telephone directory paper producer in the world.
Largest paper recycling facility in Western Canada.
Leading producer of 100% recycled newsprint.
One of the world's few producers of sawdust-based pulps — a low-cost substitute for traditional pulp products

 

Capacity (000's of tonnes)

Mill Location Number of Paper Machines Uncoated mechanical Light weight coated Directory Newsprint Container
board		 Market pulp
Crofton, BC 3 - - 246,000 150,000 - 343,000
Elk Falls, BC 3 153,000 - - 373,000 131,000 200,000
Port Alberni, BC 2 - 231,000 106,000 - - -
Powell River, BC 3 387,000 - - 83,000 - -
Snowflake, AZ 2 - - - 375,000 - -
Total capacity
(tonnes)		 540,000 231,000 352,000 981,000 131,000 543,000

 

Primary markets

2007 geographic sales distribution

United States: 50%
Asia and Australasia: 21%
Canada: 12%
Latin America: 9%
Europe and Other: 8%

Product end uses

Paper

Newspapers
Newspaper inserts
Telephone and specialty directories
Retail flyers
Catalogues
Magazines
Product packaging

Pulp

Tissue
Printing and writing papers
Lightweight publication grades and specialty products

 

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