- Fraser Papers
Fraser Papers Inc. (TSX|FPS) is a
Toronto, Ontario ,Canada -based manufacturer of specialized printing, publishing, and converting papers, with customers in Canada and the US. It manages more than two million acres (8,000 km²) of forest, operates a tree nursery, and sawmills. It was spun off as a public company in 2004 by parent Nexfor Inc., which became Norbord at the same time. Itsstock trades on theToronto Stock Exchange , under the symbol FPS. It is one of the companies listed in theS&P/TSX Composite Index (formerly the TSE 300).Fraser's 3,700 employees work in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska,
Maine andNew Hampshire in the US, andThurso, Quebec , andEdmundston ,New Brunswick in Canada.The Edmundston-Madawaska plants are the only facilities in the world that pump paper pulp by pipeline over an international border.
In 2000, Nexfor Fraser Papers (as it was known at the time) was the first company to receive international certification to the
Sustainable Forestry Initiative . Its operations are also certified to meet theISO 14001 Standard for Environmental Management Systems requirements.External links
* [http://www.fraserpapers.com/ Fraser Papers: Official website]
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