Weyerhaeuser Closing Mill

Paperboard concern looks to balance supply/demand through shuttering Canadian operation.

Weyerhaeuser announced plans to permanently close its Sturgeon Falls, Ont., containerboard mill around the first half of December. The move will remove around 100,000 tons of capacity a year The decision to close the mill was made  to allow the company to streamline its business and boost efficiency.

Over the past several months Weyerhaeuser has shuttered a number of machines throughout its network chain, including a corrugated medium machine in Kentucky, a particleboard plant in Louisiana, and a corrugated sheet plant in Oklahoma.