Domtar Rewrites Rules For Paper and Pulp Production

With more than $6.5 billion in annual revenue, Domtar is a huge force in the commercial paper industry, making everything from office paper to adult incontinence supplies. Its commitment to sourcing and harvesting timber responsibly stretches back more than 10 years, when it started using the Forest Stewardship Council guidelines. But to transform its sustainability initiatives from a resource-saving and cost-cutting exercise, Domtar stopped thinking of itself as a commodity pulp and paper company and started looking far more closely at which timber and wood components it was using resourcefully, and which it was not.