Bowater Inc. was a paper and pulp business headquartered in

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. It merged with Abitibi-Consolidated in 2007, and the combined company went on to become

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History

The North American assets of Bowater plc were built up in the 1970s, becoming known as Bowater Inc., headquartered in

. The company demerged from Bowater plc in 1984. The company acquired additional Canadian interests in the late 1990s, when it bought Avenor (formerly

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). By the mid-2000s, Bowater Inc had 10,000 employees across 12 pulp and paper mills in the United States, Canada and

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, and 13 North American sawmills. On 29 January 2007, Bowater Inc and Abitibi-Consolidated announced they would be merging to create

AbitibiBowater Resolute Forest Products (French: ''Produits forestiers Résolu''), formerly known as AbitibiBowater Inc., is a Canada-headquartered pulp and paper company. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Resolute was formed in 2007 by the merger of Bowater ...

. The merger created the third largest pulp and paper company in North America, and the eighth largest in the world. On 1 July 2012, the company name changed to

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