TORONTO — GreenFirst Forest Products announced a temporary curtailment of certain operations in order to reassess its options, following Kap Paper’s decision to begin an orderly idling of operations at its Kapuskasing paper mill. The announced idling of Kap Paper — GreenFirst’s primary customer for wood by-products — significantly worsens the challenge of managing these residual materials in Ontario. This marks the fourth pulp and paper mill to close in the province over the past two years. The two remaining pulp and paper mills in Western Ontario cannot, on their own, absorb the full volume of chips and biomass generated by sawmill operations across the province. These tough times have been exacerbated by tariffs and resulting economic uncertainty. …Effective October 6, 2025, the Company will reduce sawmill operations at its Kapuskasing, Hearst, and Cochrane facilities for the equivalent of one week. The curtailment at the Kapuskasing sawmill could extend beyond this period.