Neucel Taking Two Months of Market Related Downtime
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The Neucel Specialty Cellulose mill, Port Alice, B.C., Canada, will take market-related downtime for almost two months, according to a news report by Pulp & Paper Canada, The report cited Industry intelligence Inc., a news service covering various industries, as the information source. The Port Alice mill produces dissolving pulp using a sulfite pulping process.
Warren Beatty, VP of human resources, told Industry Intelligence the downtime began November 9 and is expected to continue until Jan. 8, 2015. The mill is conducting planned maintenance during the downtime.
Beatty noted that commodity dissolving pulp prices in China are as low as $840 per metric ton. The mill produces both commodity and specialty grades in varying proportions, Beatty said.
The Neucel mill was not affected by anti-dumping measures imposed by China last year on several Canadian producers of dissolving pulp.
