Domtar Breaks Ground On Kingsport Mill In TN
Box Shipments ( U.S. Corrugated Product Shipments) Industry Shipments In Billions of Square Feet Month December 2020
Domtar Inc. recently marked its official entry into the con- tainerboard market with a groundbreaking ceremony led by CEO John Williams and attended by officials from King- sport, the Tri-Cities region and the state of Tennessee. “This is an exciting day for the Kingsport mill and for Domtar, and we are glad to celebrate it in the company of many of those who are making this transformation possi- ble,” said Williams. The Kingsport mill, which operated for more than 100 years as a paper mill, is being converted into the company’s first packaging paper mill, where we will use recycled materials to make containerboard. As part of the event, Kingsport Mill Manager Troy Wil- son presented Mayor Pat Shull with a $500,000 check for the city of Kingsport to support the relocation of the Scott Adams Memorial Skate Park. The skate park’s move is part of a land swap agreement with the city that included the exchange of the 40-acre Cement Hill property for Cloud Park, which will be developed into a receiving area. Domtar is the largest integrated manufacturer and mar- keter of uncoated freesheet paper in North America, and one of the largest manufacturers of pulp in the world. Its- network of 13 pulp and paper mills and 10 manufacturing and converting facilities gives us approximately 2.7 million tons of papermaking capacity
Year
Actual
Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change
2020 2019
34.916 31.332
11.4
8.729 7.833
11.4
Industry Total
Year-to Date
December 2020
Year
Actual
Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change
2020 2019
406.776 393.483
3.4
8.071 7.838
3.0
Industry Total
Containerboard Consumption (Thousands of Tons)
Year
Month
Percent Change Year-to-Date Percent Change
2020 2019
2.7727 2.5660
8.1
33.0739 32.3005
2.4
Container Board Inventory - Corrugator Plants (Thousands of Tons)
Corrugator Plants Only
Date
Percent Change Weeks of Supply
Percent Change
Dec. Nov.
1.8921 1.7912
5.6
2.7 2.5
8.0
Shipping Days
Year
Month
Year-to-Date
2020 2019
20 20
252 251
SOURCE: Fibre Box Association
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