Resolute Forest Products has confirmed there will be a two-week shutdown at the local mill starting Sunday (Oct. 28).
“Due to challenging market conditions, both paper production and kraft pulp production at the Fort Frances mill will be temporarily down from Oct. 28 until Nov. 11,” company spokesperson Seth Kursman said in an e-mail to the Times yesterday.
“This temporary downtime impacts approximately 6,900 metric tons of paper production and approximately 6,000 metric tons of pulp production,” he noted.
