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Donald Fraser began his business with construction of a sawmill in 1877. Fraser sawmills at Cabano and Plaster Rock, New Brunswick were producing 76,000 cubic metres (32 million board feet) of spruce lumber annually through the mid-20th century. Sawmill edgings, slabs, and trimmings were converted to wood chips as a raw material for paper production.
At its nexus during the 1960s, Fraser Papers employed over 3,700 workers in several pulp and paper mills and saw mills throughout North America:
Atholville, New Brunswick pulp mill
Edmundston, New Brunswick pulp mill
Madawaska, Maine paper mill
Plaster Rock, New Brunswick saw mill
Juniper, New Brunswick saw mill
Thurso, Quebec pulp mill
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Cabano, Quebec saw mill (destroyed by fire in 1966)
New Hampshire
The Edmundston-Madawaska mills are the only facilities in the world that pump 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 the ISO 14001 Standard for Environmental Management Systems requirements.
In June 2009, the company filed with the Canadian and American governments for bankruptcy protection so that it could re-structure. At the time Brookfield Asset Management owned a 70% share of the Fraser Papers company.
The Edmundston and Madawaska mills are still in operation but are now owned by Twin Rivers Paper Company, employing approximately 1000 workers.
From Wikipedia’s article on Fraser Papers, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3