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On 6 October 1909, the ABC divested itself of the East
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Bathurst plant had at the time capacity for 243,000 tons per annum of corrugated medium. The closure was brought on by the post-millennial trend towards overseas manufacture. The chairman, president and CEO
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Company from Moncton had purchased the SLLC from the receivers but two weeks later the same newspaper reported that the English shareholders had rejected the offer of $ 29,000, in favour of Adams & Co. of New York. Burns' brother-in-law Samuel Adams had
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In 1921, the amalgamated company started to build the hydroelectric plant at
Nepisiguit Grand Falls. In the same year, under a Dominion charter, the Bathurst firm was renamed the Bathurst Company Limited. The firm soon began construction of a groundwood mill and the installation of a fourdrinier
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Bathurst Corrugating Medium (BCM) in 1950. This product is manufactured from hardwoods by means of a continuous semi-chemical process, and allowed the firm to utilize a greater fraction of the timber; in other words, less waste was generated by its activities.
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In 1914, due to the diminishing supply of large trees on the North Shore, a kraft pulp mill and a sulphite pulp mill were built on the west bank of the
Nepisiguit, close to town in the old Cunard farm property. The new mills each produced daily about 50 tons.
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had been in operation since 1885. The NLC had control of 650 square miles of Crown timber; with this plant the NLC proposed to produce wood pulp but in two years' time, the NLC would enter receivership and the assets reverted to the ABC.
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