Domtar Corp. Announces Management Change at Plymouth and Ashdown Pulp Mills

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Domtar Corporation announced leadership transitions for two of its paper and pulp mills. The Plymouth, North Carolina and Ashdown, Arkansas mills will have new leaderships. The transitions became necessary due to the retirement of Bob Grygotis as the General Manager of Ashdown mill effective September 1^st.

According to company press release, Allan Bohn, currently the manager of Plymouth mill will replace Grygotis as the new General Manager. Also, Bohn will be replaced with Everick Spence who currently works as director of Continuous Improvement in Domtar’s Fort Mill headquarters. Both Bohn and Spence will directly report to Steve Makris, vice president of Pulp division. The leadership transitions will be effective Sep. 1st.

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John D. Williams, Domtar CEO and President recollected that Bob had brought so much experience to the Ashdown operations, which is the company’s largest mill. Mike Garcia, President of Domtar’s Pulp & Paper division hoped that Bohn will be able to continue Grygotis’s success at ramping up fluff pulp production at the mill. The proven passionate and practical approach of Spence will drive continuous improvements at the Plymouth operations as well, Garcia said.

The company’s pulp and paper segments have continued to record solid performance despite maintenance outages at many of its facilities. The pulp shipments increased marginally by 1% during Q2 this year.

The company had posted net earnings of $43 million or $0.68 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2018, recording marginal growth over the previous year, upon comparison with $38 million or $0.61 per diluted share.

The company had recently invested in Prisma Renewable Composites, LLC, a company that develops advanced materials from lignin and other natural resources.