Tembec Inc. | Introduction
Introduction
800 Rene-Levesque Boulevard, Suite 1050
Montreal, Quebec H3B 1X9
Canada
Telephone: (514) 871-0137
Toll Free: (514) 397-0896
Web site: http://www.tembec.ca
Public Company
Incorporated: 1972 as Tembec Forest Products Inc.
Employees: 9,290
Sales: $2.12 billion (2003)
Stock Exchanges: Toronto
Ticker Symbol: TBC
NAIC: 321113 Sawmills
With headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Tembec Inc. is a publicly-owned integrated Canadian forest products company involved in four product groups. Tembec's forest products group offers a range of commodity and value-added forest products, including softwood and hardwood lumber, pine lumber, oriented strand board, hardwood flooring, and engineered wood products. The group maintains more than 30 manufacturing facilities located in Canada, the United States, South America, and Europe. The pulp group produces kraft pulp, used for printing and writing, tissue and toweling, and the making of paperboard; high yield pulp, suitable for the manufacture of coated papers, cards, construction paper, as well as tissue, toweling, and boards; and specialty cellulose pulp, used in textiles, pharmaceuticals, food additives, industrial chemicals, nursing pads, sanitary napkins, non-woven products, diapers, and other absorbent products. The Tembec Paperboard Group produces fully bleached coated paperboard used in commercial printing, packaging, high-impact graphic corrugated boxes, litho-laminated packaging, and point-of-purchase displays. The paper group manufactures newsprint, specialty printing paper used in book publishing, light-weight coated papers used in magazines and catalogs, and converted specialty paper used to make such items as cups, coffee filters, file folders, and crepe paper suitable for medical and industrial applications. All told, Tembec operates more than 50 manufacturing plants and generates annual sales in excess of C$4 billion.