Paper Excellence installed new signs at the pulp mill earlier this year. (Submitted photo/Paper Excellence)

By Alison Sandstrom

Forestry future

Paper Excellence says acquisition of Domtar doesn’t impact plans to reopen pulp mill

May 13, 2021 | 11:39 AM

Paper Excellence, the company that owns the Prince Albert pulp mill says its $3 billion acquisition of competitor Domtar won’t affect its plans to restart the facility.

“It’s absolutely business as planned for the P.A. opening, we’re hoping for 2023,” Graham Kissack, vice president of EHS and Corporate Communications at Paper Excellence told paNOW.

Kissask said there’s been “a number of new hires” at the site recently, including a safety manager and a government relations manager.

As for what needs to happen to make the mill operational again, Kissack said Paper Excellence is still completing the detailed engineering for new equipment at the site, among other things.

“We still need to secure the fiber basket for the mill,” he continued. “And then we also need to secure provincial approvals in terms of business licenses, environmental permits, things like that.”

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The new acquisition is “excellent news” for Paper Excellence, said Kissack.

“This is going to make our company much stronger, more diversified, and, frankly, more competitive in the in the global marketplace,” he said.

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