Thursday, July 16, 2009

Closure Planned at AbitibiBowater Mill

There is news today of another shutdown of AbitibiBowater's operations in Fort Frances.

A one week shutdown of paper machines numbers five and 7 is to occur starting Monday.

They will restart on July 26th.

Both machines were idled for a lengthy period earlier this year.

Production at machine number 6 will also remain shutdown.

No word yet when it will resume.