Source:  The Dead Tree Edition
High prices for recycled paper are threatening to shut down what may be North America’s premier recycled-newsprint mill, Catalyst Paper. “Increasing ONP [old newspaper] prices will negatively affect manufacturing costs at the Snowflake mill, and could result in future production curtailment at that mill,” the company said in its first-quarter earnings presentation. The Snowflake, Arizona mill uses only recycled fiber, not virgin fiber in its products. Catalyst bought the mill in early 2008 when the Justice Department forced Abitibi to sell Snowflake before merging with Bowater. Click here to read the whole story on the Dead Tree Edition.