Cascades, a Kingsey Falls, Quebec-based paper and packaging producer, is restructuring its Tissue Papers platform, closing two underperforming plants as well as shutting down a virgin paper tissue machine in a move that will impact 300 employees in the U.S.
Beginning in July, the company will progressively close what it says are underperforming plants in Barnwell, South Carolina, and Scappoose, Oregon, and the virgin paper tissue machine at its St. Helens, Oregon, plant. The equipment slated for closure has a combined total annual rated capacity of 92,000 short tons of tissue paper and 10 million cases of converted product, but Cascades says it has been operating below capacity, producing 56,000 short tons of tissue and 5 million cases o…
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