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Estivale discusses crucial industry issues: roundtables on "Future fibres" and "Paper producing beyond 2000" were the most popular

Pulp & paper Canada, 1998-07, Vol.99 (7), p.12

Copyright Southam Business Communications, Inc. Jul 1998 ;ISSN: 0316-4004 ;EISSN: 1923-3515

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    Estivale discusses crucial industry issues: roundtables on "Future fibres" and "Paper producing beyond 2000" were the most popular
  • Author: Ouellet, Jaclin
  • Subjects: Conferences ; Pulp & paper industry
  • Is Part Of: Pulp & paper Canada, 1998-07, Vol.99 (7), p.12
  • Description: Four panelists were invited to discuss the subject: Yves Dionne, Avenor Inc., Gatineau, QC; Pierre Bourdages, St-Laurent Paperboard Inc., Montreal; Jacques Valade, President of a new research company. Papyrus Novus Inc., Montreal; and Pierre Marineau, from Quebec's Ministry of Natural Resources. Marineau said that not only is the fibre resource limited, but there is a real scramble at the starting line to get the available areas, especially for hardwood. And right now, pulp and paper and particleboard mills/sawmills are in direct competition to get these areas. Who will win? Marineau says that independent sawmills have an edge, being 11% more successful in acquiring public forest land during the past decade. Marineau said that P & P mills need to act fast to secure more lands (the Ministry gets over 700 demands a year for public lands). The Raimbault Demontigny prize for the best presentation went to Caroline Lachance, Abitibi-Consolidated, and Sylvie Huard, Reboisement Mauricie, for their paper on the recovery and use of biosolids at Abitibi-Consolidated. Those biosolids are used for agricultural purposes to restore poor organic soil. In the first year, biosolids were landspread on fields producing different types of crops. The oat harvest was good, and the grass and hay fields were in excellent condition. In 1997, more than 100 000 wet tonnes of biosolids were landspread on different types of crops. Again the plants were in excellent condition and a high yield was recorded. The landspreading program since became an ecological and economical alternative to solid residue management. [Laurent Verreault] told the audience that he was preoccupied by the present wave of acquisitions. "Everything is happening very rapidly. From a social/human point of view, there is something wrong with the fact that a worker, who has been and still is loyal to his company, can lose his job from one day to the next because of 'outside factor' like globalization. This wave is happening and no one can stop it. At this rate, companies will become stronger than governments who will not be able to protect individuals anymore (not that they have been doing a good job at it anyway!!)". On the up side, Verreault said that consolidation will impose some discipline in the pulp and paper industry, will help companies control spendings but will also divide the industry in three segments: small, mid-size and big suppliers and producers. "The problem is that big producers have the tendancy to do business with suppliers their own size, small suppliers can find niche markets to grow, while mid-size suppliers (like GL & V) will struggle in-between. In such an environment, you eat the other or he will eat you. Or you try to be the 'must stop shop' in a particular market. But to tell you the truth, I honestly don't know what the industry will look like in two years from now."
  • Publisher: Westmount: Annex Publishing & Printing, Inc
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0316-4004
    EISSN: 1923-3515
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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