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- Bowater Incorporated
- Country : United States
- City: Greenville
- State: South Carolina - SC
- Address: 55 E. Camperdown Way
- Zipcode: 29602-1028
- Category: Fortune 1000 Companies
- Description: Bowater is always making the news -- the newsprint, that is. The company is the second-largest newsprint maker in North America (Abitibi-Consolidated is #1), churning out about 3 million tons of newsprint a year. Other products include coated and uncoated groundwood papers, market pulp, lumber, and timber. Bowater owns or leases about 1.5 million acres of timberlands in the US and Canada, and it has cutting rights to another 33 million acres in Canada. The company, which expanded its product line in 2001 by acquiring Canada's Alliance Forest Products, now operates 12 pulp and paper mills in the US, Canada, and South Korea, and 13 sawmills in North America.
- Products: Forest & Paper Products