Thunder Bay Paper Machine No. 5 Set To Re-Open
What tremendous news for many of our residents! AbitibiBowater, the company behind our local paper manufacturing plant has just announced their intention to re-open one of the two plants that have sadly been shut down due to a number of conniving factors last August. This automatically makes the holidays for about 170 employees and their families a whole lot brighter indeed.
The restart for plant No. 5 is set to be on the New Year and the announcement came after successful negotiation efforts with our local labour front and the commitments of the Ontario government to supply wood, said Jean-Philippe Cote, the company’s spokesperson.
Although this is naturally a great news from all angles, the company did say that they will have to be very careful with their financial position regardless of the shutdown. One of the factors the company has noted when they say is contributing to the challenges in operating such a plant is the cost of power. The company has already been trying to get a hold of a more viable source of power to run the plant above ground.
Regardless of the challenges up ahead, everyone in and around Thunder Bay has nothing but praise for such news and so will everyone who will be back to work by then.
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