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Currently in the midst of a shutdown that started March 28 and will end April 11, the AbitibiBowater paper mill here will see yet another two-week halt in paper production in May.
“Due to a difficult market situation, paper mill operations will be down on May 2 and will resume on May 16,” Pierre Choquette, Abitibi’s manager of Canadian Public Affairs, said in an e-mail to the Times yesterday.
This will mark the third shutdown since the start of 2011.
Paper production at the local mill also had been halted from Feb. 21-March 7 due to poor market conditions.
