Very interesting article, especially the fact that foreign owned corporations such as Jackson Wijaya’s Paper Excellence are buying up mills and closing them to prevent competition. Time to buy them back and make them crown corporations as per the CCF’s recommendations.
With 10 million tonnes of new pulp production hitting the global market the impact on northern pulp cannot be ignored.
The market still likes the long fibre temperate forest pulp but it will now become just a nice to have component in the recipe of specific paper products. With a price differential of $300 per tonne more expensive than tropical plantation pulp Canadian mills will continue to be under pressure from the global commodity cycle.
We don't make running shoes, electronics, furniture or household hardware anymore. Whither goest Canadian forest commodity products when all factors of production are mobile?
The future will be local but that future is in the future.
a great explainer on the Crofton Mill Closure by the Boundary Forest Watershed Stewardship Society came out today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ydLerj063I
Very interesting article, especially the fact that foreign owned corporations such as Jackson Wijaya’s Paper Excellence are buying up mills and closing them to prevent competition. Time to buy them back and make them crown corporations as per the CCF’s recommendations.
amen!
Thanks for the interesting and thoughtful essay. I grew up in Crofton and the mill was its reason for being.
Thanks Carolyn. It's a tough time for Crofton
With 10 million tonnes of new pulp production hitting the global market the impact on northern pulp cannot be ignored.
The market still likes the long fibre temperate forest pulp but it will now become just a nice to have component in the recipe of specific paper products. With a price differential of $300 per tonne more expensive than tropical plantation pulp Canadian mills will continue to be under pressure from the global commodity cycle.
We don't make running shoes, electronics, furniture or household hardware anymore. Whither goest Canadian forest commodity products when all factors of production are mobile?
The future will be local but that future is in the future.
Thanks for your analysis.