Company News

Pfizer Specialty Minerals now has 14 operational PCC plants.
Boise Cascade Corp. is seeking a buyer for its Vancouver mill, which specializes in the production of carbonless paper, a grade the company will not focus on in the future. It is the smallest of B-C's ten mills.
Performance Papers of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, and its owners are trying to sell the mill. It was known earlier as the Allied Papers mill. Caught in the squeeze between rising pulp prices and falling demand for lightweight book papers, with its customers demanding alkaline papers, it decided in the middle of 1989 to convert to alkaline operations, a costly decision. It also switched to use of recycled fibers, and demand was growing, but timing was bad and capital was too hard to get. More information in the June American Papermaker.