Mercer International announced that its Peace River pulp mill in Alberta, Canada, has taken downtime to complete necessary repairs to the mill's digester after experiencing a mechanical failure.

Mercer currently expects the repairs and related assessments will be completed in mid-October and anticipates that NBHK production at the mill will be reduced by approximately 45,000 tonnes as a result of the downtime.

Mercer noted that it maintains property and business interruption insurance for the Peace River mill and expects the repairs and business interruption will be covered by such insurance, subject to customary deductibles and limits.

Mercer Peace River produces both high-quality softwood and hardwood pulp. The majority of the mill's pulp sales are to North American customers, while the remainder is shipped to Asian and European markets.

Mercer International is a global forest products company with operations in Germany, the USA and Canada with consolidated annual production capacity of 2.1 million tonnes of pulp, 960 million board feet of lumber, 210 thousand cubic meters of cross-laminated timber, 45,000 cubic meters of glulam, 17 million pallets and 230,000 metric tonnes of biofuels.

Source: paperage.com