Domtar Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes various fiber-based products, including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers. The company operates as a subsidiary of Paper Excellence B.V.
The company’s Pulp and Paper business designs, manufactures, markets and distributes communication, specialty and packaging papers, as well as softwood, hardwood and fluff pulps and high quality airlaid and ultrathin laminated cores.
Manufacturing Operations
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Domtar Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes various fiber-based products, including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers. The company operates as a subsidiary of Paper Excellence B.V.
The company’s Pulp and Paper business designs, manufactures, markets and distributes communication, specialty and packaging papers, as well as softwood, hardwood and fluff pulps and high quality airlaid and ultrathin laminated cores.
Manufacturing Operations
The company produces approximately 3.4 million metric tons of softwood, fluff and hardwood pulp at 10. Approximately 60% of its pulp is consumed internally to manufacture paper, with the balance being sold as market pulp. The company also purchases limited papergrade pulp from third parties for specific grades and to optimize the logistics of its pulp capacity.
The company is the major integrated manufacturer and marketer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America. The company has eight integrated pulp and paper mills (six in the United States (U.S.) and two in Canada), with an annual paper production capacity of approximately 2.4 million tons of uncoated freesheet paper. Its paper manufacturing operations are supported by eleven converting and forms manufacturing operations (including a network of eight plants located offsite from its paper making operations). Approximately 70% of its paper production capacity is in the United States and 30% is in Canada.
The company produces market pulp in the excess of its internal requirements at its pulp and paper mills in Ashdown, Espanola, Hawesville, Windsor, Marlboro and Nekoosa. The company also produces papergrade, fluff and specialty pulps at its two stand-alone pulp mills in Dryden and Plymouth. The company could sell approximately 1.4 million metric tons of pulp per year depending on market conditions. Approximately 69% of its pulp production capacity is in the U.S. and 31% is in Canada.
Product Offering
Paper
The company’s uncoated freesheet papers are categorized into both communication papers and specialty and packaging papers. Communication papers are further categorized into business papers and commercial printing and publishing papers.
The company’s business papers include copy and electronic imaging papers, which are used with inkjet and laser printers, photocopiers and plain-paper fax machines, as well as computer papers, preprinted forms and digital papers. These products are primarily for office and home use.
The company’s commercial printing and publishing papers include uncoated freesheet papers, such as offset papers and opaques. These uncoated freesheet grades are used in sheet and roll fed offset presses across the spectrum of commercial printing end-uses, including digital printing. The company’s publishing papers include tradebook and lightweight uncoated papers used primarily in book publishing applications, such as textbooks, dictionaries, catalogs, magazines, hard cover novels and financial documents. These products also include converting papers, such as envelopes, tablets, business forms and data processing/computer forms.
The company’s specialty and packaging papers include papers used for thermal printing, flexible packaging, food packaging, medical packaging, medical gowns and drapes, sandpaper backing, carbonless printing, labels and other papers used for coating and laminating applications. The company also manufactures papers for industrial and specialty applications, including carrier papers, treated papers, security papers and specialized printing and converting applications.
The company sells business papers primarily to paper stationers, merchants, office equipment manufacturers and retail outlets. The company distributes uncoated commercial printing and publishing papers to end-users and commercial printers, mainly through paper merchants, as well as selling directly to some end-users. The company sells its specialty and packaging papers mainly to converters, who apply a further production process, such as coating, rewinding, folding or waxing to its papers before selling them to various specialized end-users.
Pulp
The company’s pulp products include softwood, fluff and hardwood kraft, as well as high quality airlaid and ultrathin laminated cores. The company’s pulp grades sold to customers in approximately 50 countries worldwide and are used in various end products, such as diapers and personal hygiene products, bathroom and facial tissue, specialty and packaging papers, customers who make printing and writing grades, building products and electrical insulating papers. The company’s laminated cores are used in the manufacturing of baby diapers, adult incontinence and feminine hygiene products.
The company sells market pulp to customers in North America mainly through a North American sales force while sales to various worldwide customers are made directly or through commission agents. The company maintains pulp supplies at warehouses, which allow the company to respond to customer orders on short notice.
Customers
In 2021, Staples represented approximately 12% of its sales. The majority of its customers purchase products through individual purchase orders.
Intellectual Property
The company’s key trademarks include Cougar, Lynx Opaque Ultra, Husky Opaque Offset, First Choice, EarthChoice, Ariva, NovaThin, and NovaZorb. The company’s trademarks have been registered in the U.S. and/or in other countries where its products are sold. The company owns the U.S. and foreign patents, and has various pending patent applications.
History
Domtar Corporation was founded in 1848. The company was incorporated in 2006.
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