![]() ![]() This month, the company closed a $3.6-billion deal to buy Resolute Forest Products, Paper Excellence’s latest acquisition that now makes it the largest forest products company in North America.īut even as it has made multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, the company has continued its long history of courting governments for further investment. Overnight, Paper Excellence became the largest pulp manufacturer in the province. Less than a week earlier, Canfor said it would shut one of its mills in Prince George and leave 300 people out of a job. The help was coming at a hard time for forestry workers. ![]() ![]() “We can only be here today if we have confidence that we have an ongoing supply of fibre,” he told the cameras. Premier David Eby walked up to a lectern outside Paper Excellence’s Crofton mill and announced $18.5 million in provincial and federal government funding to put people back to work.Ī few minutes later, Paper Excellence’s chief operating officer Stew Gibson took over the microphone. 20, 2023, a live-stream took over the B.C. ![]()
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