Tembec

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Field	Value
name	Tembec Industries Inc.
logo	Tembec Logo.svg
logo_size	200px
type	Public
traded_as
fate	Acquired by Rayonier Advanced Materials
founder	Frank Dottori
location_city	Montreal, Quebec
location_country	Canada
defunct	2017 (sold to Rayonier for 475,000,000 $CAD)
key_people	James Lopez
Frank Dottori
industry	Paper and paper products
num_employees	3000 (2017)
homepage	www.tembec.com
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Tembec Industries Inc., known as Tembec, was a paper company in Canada, founded by Frank Dottori. In 2011, Tembec had approximately 3000 employees, with locations in Canada, United States, and France. Tembec's operating divisions included Forest Products, Pulp, Paper & Paperboard, and Chemicals.

History

Tembec was founded in 1973 by Frank Dottori in the town of Témiscaming, Quebec, following efforts by former employees and Temiscaming residents to save their jobs and save their town's economy. They organized to create a company through an unprecedented relationship among entrepreneurs, unionized employees, the community and several levels of government. In 1973, the newly-founded company purchased the shuttered mill and Tembec was founded. A documentary covering the efforts of workers to form Tembec and reopen the mill, Témiskaming, Quebec, was created by Martin Duckworth and released by the National Film Board in 1975.

In May 2017, it was announced that Tembec had agreed to a takeover offer by Rayonier Advanced Materials for CAD $320 million. In July, Rayonier's offer was raised to CAD $475 million. The deal closed in November.

On 8 January 2020, the company was fined $250,000 for the 25 May 2018 death of a worker in Chapleau, to which it had pled guilty. The accident had occurred six days prior to when, according to court proceedings, "Rayonier acquired the mill from Tembec Industries Inc., which operated the mill under the name Ryam Lumber, on May 31, 2018."

Operations

Tembec's Forest Products Group comprised 31 manufacturing operations producing softwood lumber, engineered wood products, and specialty wood products. The Pulp, Paper & Paperboard Group consisted of 9 pulp manufacturing plants, 5 paper manufacturing plants and 1 paperboard plant. The Chemicals group produced resins, ethanol lignin from the pulping discharge in five of its pulping plants.

In popular culture

The town gained national attention and its efforts to save itself were chronicled in the documentary, A Town that Wouldn’t Die.

References

(2020-01-08). "Lumber Mill Fatality in Chapleau Results in $250,000 Fine For Mill Owners". Ontario Court bulletin.
(June 2024)
(13 March 2015). "In life after Tembec Inc, Frank Dottori finds new passion with Fadco Consulting Inc and White River Forest Products Ltd". Financial Post.
Canada, National Film Board of. "Temiscaming, Québec".
(May 25, 2017). "Quebec's Tembec to be bought by Florida-based Rayonier". The Globe and Mail.
(July 24, 2017). "Rayonier Advanced raises offer for Tembec to $475 million". BNN.
"New name and owner for Tembec". CBC News.
(1 November 2007). "View From British Columbia".

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