Ashdown Paper Mill, Arkansas

The Ashdown Paper Mill, in Ashdown, Arkansas, near the northeast corner of Texas is operated by Domtar, a manufacturer and marketer of uncoated free-sheet paper, of the type generally used as office paper, and a supplier of pulp for the paper industry. The company started in 1903 as Dominion Tar and Chemical, using byproducts from the big steel mill in Sydney, Nova Scotia, later adding construction materials, and paper. It is a Canadian company, based in Montreal, though became more US-based when it merged with the paper division of Weyerhaeuser in 2006. Weyerhaeuser has since left paper production, and Domtar operates several paper plants in the US, including this one, which it acquired from Georgia-Pacific in 2001.