Domtar to Close Port Edwards mill and Reduce Dryden Capacity

Domtar is on schedule with its announced capacity reductions. It will close Port Edwards, Wisconsin, which had a capacity of 165,000 tons of uncoated Freesheet, sometime in the second quarter of 2008. In addition to this mill, Domtar will reduce production of its Dryden, Canada facility. The #2 machine, producing 332,000 tons will be shut down and the #1 machine will be started back up, it will produce 155,000 tons – both machines manufacture uncoated free sheet. Domtar’s net reduction with this announcement, as well as previously shuttered equipment, will be 340,000 tons.