The head of Thunder Bay’s pulp mill says he feels the local operation is well-positioned, given current market demands. Thunder Bay Pulp and Paper now only produces softwood kraft pulp on a single line at its Neebing Avenue facility and generates renewable energy for sale to the Ontario power grid after axing its newsprint division earlier this year. Despite that, CEO Norm Bush said there’s a significant demand for what they’re still producing. “Fortunately, the pulp sector that we are participating in now, and particularly the grades that we’re supporting, is actually growing,” he said at the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association conference on the future of the region’s forestry sector. …“We’re not subject to electronic substitution in toilet paper and paper towel, so that market is pretty protected and, because of our proximity to those markets, it’s a barrier for other pulp producers to come and make a profit in our market segment.”