Kruger announced a cost cutting plan for its Corner Brook, Newfoundland mill; it includes reducing labor costs and will be implemented in the first quarter of 2012. The mill has two paper machines with a total capacity of approximately 260,000 metric tonnes per year of newsprint. In what was assumed to be an accidental release of an internal company memorandum to CBC, Kruger said mill labor costs were $40 per metric tonne more than the $100 average for North America and that the facility would operate more efficiently with 135 fewer workers.
