Domtar
Domtar
products are all around us. Just think about the wooden frame of your house and
the “sticky” notes on the fridge, the magazines you read and the photocopied
recipes you trade, the growing pile of “must-read” books by the bed and the
wrapper on that take-out burger, the doctor's surgical gown, and the cardboard
box your birthday present came in.
As
the company grew management soon realized that its historic name of
Dominion Tar & Chemical Company, Limited no longer reflected the reality of
its business operations. In 1965, the therefore became known as Domtar Inc. In
addition, Domtar was reorganized into different division - Chemicals, Consumer
Products, Construction Materials, Kraft and Fine Papers, Newsprint and
Containerboard, and Packaging divisions. In 1967 they began to focus on paper.
On
August 7, 2001 Domtar purchased four paper mills from Georgia-Pacific
Corporation for a total of $1.65 billion. With these mills in Ashdown (
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here to learn more about the Nekoosa Mill.