Tembec has expanded its Kallima Coated Cover line with C1S and C2S web grades. C1S Web Coated Cover is ideal for inserts, magazine, and directory covers, while C2S is appropriate for UV coating, and creasing and folding applications.
Contact: www.kallimapaper.com

Unisource has re-launched its green paper website complete with new interactive services and more environmentally friendly resources. Daily RSS feeds provide visitors with the latest news and trends associated with going green, and a new “Ask Unisource Green” feature, sees questions about chain-of-custody answered by a company expert. Unisource customers can also sign up for the Respect Printer’s Program, which lets designers and other paper buyers search for green printers using a “Unisource green finder” tool.
Contact: www.unisourcegreen.com

A new HP Indigo certified Environment Digital PC 100 White joins the Neenah Paper digital line. It’s a warm white with a brightness of 95. Environment Digital is FSC and Green-e certified, and contains 100% post-consumer recycled paper. Environment has also been tested and optimized for use on all digital presses, as well as desktop and office printers. Look for it in 80 lb. and 100 lb. text, and 80 lb. and 100 lb. cover, in sizes such as 12" x 18", 13" x 19", and 19" x 13"­.
Contact: www.neenahpaper.com

Yet another Canadian pulp mill is taking some downtime. Tembec has idled a Quebec pulp mill as well as three other mills in France. The Canadian mill will be idled indefinitely, the company said. About 120 employees were laid off. Tembec said the decision was made because of slow demand, and expectations the market will not improve anytime soon. The Quebec mill produces high-yield pulp, used in a variety of papers, including printing and writing papers. It has an annual production capacity of 250,000 tonnes.

SFK Pulp laid off more than 200 employees for six weeks at its Saint-Félicien, Que. mill in March. The temporary shutdown was in response to low market demand, and the company also closed a mill in Fairmont, WV, for a month. Combined, production of northern bleached softwood kraft pulp was cut by 45,000 tonnes, and recycled bleached kraft by 25,000 tonnes.

Thunder Bay Fine Papers was sold to a group of investors known as Superior Fine Papers Inc. for an undisclosed amount in Feburary. It will be the only coated freesheet mill in Canada, producing brands like Jenson Plus, Thunder Gloss, Route 88, and coated and uncoated postal reply card products. Thunder Bay Fine Papers was placed in receivership in November 2008, and put up for sale because it owed more than $20 million to creditors. Provincial, Abitibi, and Cascades have all owned the mill in the past.