{"id":675433,"date":"2026-05-17T11:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675433\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:59:33","slug":"owner-of-maniwaki-que-sawmill-open-to-selling-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675433\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of Maniwaki, Que., sawmill open to selling it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Domtar says it is open to selling the Maniwaki, Que., sawmill it’s been temporarily closing and reopening since the end of 2024, leaving more than 100 workers in further limbo.<\/p>\n

The company, which acquired the mill when it bought Resolute Forest Products in 2023, cited difficult market conditions and U.S. softwood lumber duties when announcing a closure in September 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Domtar gave staff and elected officials an update at a meeting Tuesday night and later confirmed the company’s latest thinking to Radio-Canada.<\/p>\n

“We don’t see recovery in the short, medium or long term,” said Guillaume Julien, Domtar’s eastern Canadian senior director of public affairs, in French.<\/p>\n

“We think the best scenario would be to find a local owner.”<\/p>\n

WATCH | Sadness in Maniwaki last September:\"\"<\/p>\n

Maniwaki sawmill closure puts 130 jobs on the chopping block<\/p>\n

The Domtar sawmill in Maniwaki is closing indefinitely after sweeping lumber tariffs from the U.S. put Canada\u2019s industry at risk.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason the sawmill would reopen was around its agreement with the province<\/a> to purchase wood.<\/p>\n

A worker union said those relatively short reopenings aren’t enough for workers.<\/p>\n

Unifor Local 182 President Jessy Scott said it’s not clear what it will take to find a buyer.<\/p>\n

“The guys are pretty down,” he said.<\/p>\n

About 3,800 people lived in the western Quebec community as of the 2021 census.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-675433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}