Three
key North American producers of northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) will
shutter mills this month for regularly scheduled maintenance work, according to
industry contacts and public filings.
Canfor
Pulp said when announcing its first quarter results that during the second
quarter it has planned maintenance outages at two market NBSK mills.Also in British Columbia, Catalyst Paper has annual maintenance downtime scheduled at its 403,000 tonnes/yr NBSK mill at Crofton, BC, during June.
Northern Pulp Nova Scotia meantime is scheduled to idle its 282,000 tonnes/yr of northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp mill at Pictou, NS, for 12 days of annual maintenance downtime in June, contacts said.
During the outage, the Paper Excellence-owned Northern Pulp mill is trimming and estimated 9,600 tonnes of output.
The closures at Canfor Pulp, Catalyst, and Northern Pulp will result in an estimated 45,600 tonnes of market NBSK output getting trimmed from supplies during June.
