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Carrying on with its previously-announced plan to have scheduled shutdowns at the AbitibiBowater mill here due to poor market conditions for its products, paper machines #5 and #7 were idled yesterday for a two-week period ending April 4.
The kraft mill also is ceasing operations from March 22-April 4.
In related news, mill manager John Harrison said this morning that paper machine #6, which was idled at the beginning of March and expected to be back online April 4, now will not be started up until Sunday, May 3.
Harrison noted the extension is due to a lack of orders.
This is the second shutdown in the past three months, with the local mill also having stopped operations over the Christmas holidays (Dec. 24-Jan. 2).
