Solucan is setting up a digital can printing production line in part of the former Wabasso plant in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, for a project of CAD 4,094,891. The Quebec government granted a loan of CAD 1,340,713 and the federal government a loan of CAD 500,000; production started in December.
MV Technologies received a purchase order for its SulfAx hydrogen sulfide removal system from the governments of Canada and Quebec as part of a $31 million biomethanization program. The announcement was dated June 27, 2017.
Cascades will invest CAD 6.1 million and the Quebec government CAD 5.2 million in two energy efficiency projects at its Cabano containerboard plant, modifying residual biomass boilers to reduce heavy-fuel oil use.
Kruger completed the conversion of its No. 10 newsprint machine at the Trois-Rivières mill in Quebec into a lightweight linerboard line with 360,000 tonnes annual capacity, creating 270 jobs. The project was first announced with the Government of Quebec in September 2015.