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Forestry Manufacturing Pulp & Paper
Business Operations Operations Production Technology
August 31, 2012
Idled Cape Breton mill gets $1.5 million court approved cash injection
Money for NewPage’s Port Hawkesbury mill comes from a $15.8-million provincial fund to keep the mill in a so-called hot idle mode.
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Business Operations Operations
April 13, 2012
Final offer: 50% job cuts at NewPage
The union representing employees at an idled Cape Breton paper mill says the final offer from a potential BC buyer would lay off about half of its workforce.
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Business Operations Operations Sustainability
November 30, 2011
BC firm second bidder for idled NS paper mill
The court-appointed monitor overseeing efforts to sell a shuttered Cape Breton paper mill has named a second bidder interested in buying and operating the factory.
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General
November 3, 2011
Troubled NS paper mills need to cut costs to survive
The ability for the troubled Bowater Mersey and Port Hawksury paper mills to cut costs will help determine whether or not they stay in operation.
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Production Sustainability
August 22, 2011
NewPage idles two NS paper machines
Two paper machines at a Nova Scotia mill are shutting down indefinitely as its parent company grapples with economic challenges and rising costs.