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Domtar

Foreign-owned · made in Canada · based in Quebec

Pulp, paper (Domtar, EarthChoice, Cougar, Lettermark and Xerox-licensed lines), tissue and wood products maker with about 60 mills and converting facilities across Canada and the US. Founded in Canada in 1848 as Domtar's predecessor and long Montreal-headquartered, it was taken private in 2021 by Paper Excellence and now shares principal offices between Montreal, Quebec and Fort Mill, South Carolina.

Montreal, Quebec CA · www.domtar.com

Domtar is a North American pulp, paper and wood products maker taken private in 2021 by Paper Excellence, whose beneficial owner Jackson Widjaja and the Sinar Mas/Asia Pulp and Paper group are based in Indonesia. Manufacturing and employment are split fairly evenly between Canada and the US, with a slight Canadian majority; the exact ownership chain from the Richmond, BC holding entity to Indonesia is reported in press and reference sources only.

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Ownership

20.0 reported

other 100%

Paper Excellence acquired Domtar Corporation in 2021 and took it private; Wikidata lists Paper Excellence as owned by Jackson Wijaya Limantara, and press and Wikipedia coverage ties Paper Excellence's capital to the Widjaja family's Sinar Mas/Asia Pulp and Paper group in Indonesia, so ownership is allocated to OTHER at full weight. Corporations Canada confirms an active federal holding entity, Paper Excellence Canada Investments Corporation, registered in Vancouver, BC with directors in Richmond, BC, but the registry does not itself show the Indonesian beneficial-ownership link, which is reported rather than verified.

Manufacturing

54.5 reported

CA 65% · US 35%

Domtar's own locations page lists roughly 43 named mills; counting by facility, about 28 are in Canada (mostly Quebec, plus British Columbia and Ontario) and 15 in the US (across the southern and midwestern US), giving a rough 65/35 Canada-to-US split by facility count rather than revenue. Its most recent SEC 10-K describes a similarly split North American mill network but its facility-by-country breakdown could not be cleanly extracted from the filing text, so the vendor's own locations page is used as the primary basis and the split is treated as an estimate.

People

40.2 verified

CA 54% · US 46%

Domtar's fiscal 2025 Form 10-K states approximately 12,100 employees, 54% in Canada and 46% in the United States, matching its dual principal-executive-office addresses in Montreal, Quebec and Fort Mill, South Carolina on the same filing's cover page.

  • 10-K · filing “We have approximately 12,100 employees; 46% are employed in the United States and 54% in Canada.”

Inputs

54.5 inferred

CA 65% · US 35%

Domtar states it sources 100% of its wood fiber to third-party forestry standards but does not publish a country breakdown; pulp and paper mills typically draw fiber from the forest region surrounding each mill, so the input mix is estimated to mirror the manufacturing footprint (roughly 65% Canada, 35% US) rather than measured directly.

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