Catalyst Paper is a Canadian paper manufacturer. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company produces paper and pulp for commercial printers, publishers and paper manufacturers in North America, Latin America, the Pacific Rim and Europe. Catalyst is western North America’s largest mechanical paper producer, the region’s only producer of lightweight coated paper and the world’s largest manufacturer of paper for telephone and other directories. The company also makes market kraft pulp and operates Western Canada’s largest paper recycling facility. A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by relatively few individuals. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... Pulp can refer to: Soft shapeless substances in general. ... Piece of Letter paper Paper is a thin material produced by the amalgamation of plant fibres, which are subsequently held together without extra binder, largely by hydrogen bonds and fiber entanglement. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Piece of Letter paper Paper is a thin material produced by the amalgamation of plant fibres, which are subsequently held together without extra binder, largely by hydrogen bonds and fiber entanglement. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ...

Divisions

Catalyst owns a pulp and paper mills in Campbell River (Elk Falls Division) and Crofton (Crofton Division), and paper mills in Port Alberni (Port Alberni Division) and Powell River (Powell River Division). It also runs a paper de-inking plant in Coquitlam (Paper Recycling Division). Its head office is located in Vancouver. , Campbell River is a city in British Columbia at the south end of Discovery Passage on northern Vancouver Island. ... Crofton, British Columbia, Canada, is a small town that is part of the District of North Cowichan on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. ... Port Alberni is a city located in the province of British Columbia in Canada. ... Powell River, British Columbia is a small city on the south mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on the shores of the Strait of Georgia. ... De-inked pulp is recycled paper which has been processed by chemicals, thus removing ink and other unwanted elements. ... Member of Parliament James Moore (City Centre / Westwood Plateau) (Conservative) Paul Forseth (Burquitlam) (Conservative) Member of the Legislative Assembly Diane Thorne (NDP) Mayor Maxine Wilson Councillors Kent Becker Fin Donnelly Louella Hollington Mae Reid Bill LeClair Barrie Lynch Lou Sekora Population (2005) 113,498 Immigrant Population 39,000 (35%) Languages... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ...

History

The main branch of the family tree is British Columbia Forest Products Limited, formed in 1946 as a logging and sawmilling company. With extensive forest operations in British Columbia, BCFP built a solid reputation as a leading wood products company. The company diversified in the early 1950s with expansion into pulp and paper and soon was one of the province's largest integrated forest products companies.

In 1987, Fletcher Challenge Limited of New Zealand, which already owned another BC company, Crown Forest Industries, purchased BCFP. A year later, both companies were merged to form Fletcher Challenge Canada Limited. Gradually, the company began to sharpen its focus on pulp and paper as its core businesses. As a result, it sold its wood products and forest interests to other operators.

In 2000, Norske Skog, a Norwegian paper company, purchased all of Fletcher Challenge's pulp and paper assets, including its majority interest in Fletcher Challenge Canada. That fall, the company changed its name to Norske Skog Canada Limited. Norske Skogindustrier ASA (Norske Skog), which translates as Norwegian Forest Industries, is an Norwegian pulp and paper company based in Oslo, Norway. ...

In August 2001, Norske Skog Canada acquired Pacifica Papers. Pacifica was formed in 1998 from the paper assets previously held by MacMillan Bloedel. With the acquisition of Pacifica, which effectively doubled the size of the company, the company assumed the new identity of NorskeCanada.

In December 2003 the company grew once again, with the acquisition of Newstech Recycling. Now Catalyst's Paper Recycling Division, the facility uses old newspapers and magazines to create de-inked pulp that the company uses to manufacture paper products.

In October 2005, shareholders approved a name change, and NorskeCanada became Catalyst Paper Corporation. The company said it chose the new name so it could do business under its own unique identity, one that clearly differentiated it with customers and that accurately reflected its capital structure. The name "Catalyst" was also the name of the company's premium lightweight directory paper.

In February 2006, Norske Skog sold all of its remaining Catalyst shares, ending its association with the company.

External links

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