Tembec
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| Type | Public |
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| Industry | Paper & Paper Products |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Key people | James Lopez |
| Employees | approx. 6000[1] |
| Website | www.tembec.com |
Tembec Inc. (TSX: TMB) is a paper company in Canada. Tembec has approximately 6000 employees[1] located in Canada, United States, and France. Tembec's operating divisions include Forest Products, Pulp, Paper & Paperboard, and Chemicals.
The Forest Products Group comprises 31 manufacturing operations producing softwood lumber, engineered wood products, and specialty wood products. The Pulp, Paper & Paperboard Group consists of 9 pulp manufacturing plants, 5 paper manufacturing plants and 1 paperboard plant. The Chemicals group produces resins, ethanol and lignin from the pulping discharge in five of its pulping plants.
[edit] Company creation
Tembec was created in 1973 in the town of Témiscaming, in Quebec near the border of Ontario. The town's economic lifeblood, a pulp mill owned by a large multinational corporation, was shut down in 1972. The mill's former employees and Temiscaming residents gained national attention in their fight to save their jobs, and their efforts created a unique and unprecedented relationship among entrepreneurs, unionized employees, the community and several levels of government. The mill was purchased and Tembec came into being.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Tembec's U.S. subsidiary to liquidate four years after closing Louisiana mill", Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press, 25 April 2011
