Resolute Forest Products

In June 2019, Resolute won a global Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Award in the forestry products and services category. The annual international competition celebrates the success and achievements of firms and individuals that have taken an innovative approach to demonstrate exceptional business performance. This is the third consecutive year Corporate LiveWire has recognized Resolute.

In June 2019, Resolute Tissue won a Strategic Market Alliance (SMA) 2019 Navigator Recognition Award for delivering one of the largest increases in sales growth within SMA’s member distributors network during 2018. SMA is comprised of North America’s leading janitorial, sanitation and foodservice distributors who serve the United States and Canada from more than 190 distribution centers. The awards annually recognize and celebrate superior performance by the cooperative’s top members and suppliers.

In May 2019, two Resolute employees were recognized by the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) Awards of Excellence program. Marie-Philippe Drouin, a superintendent at our Alma (Quebec) mill, received the Rising Star Award, while recently retired François Dumoulin – a forest engineer who spent his entire 40-year career with Resolute and its predecessor companies – received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. The annual event recognizes and celebrates the men and women who have made special contributions to strengthen Canada’s forest products sector and forest communities.

In May 2019, our Resolute-LP – Larouche (Quebec) joint-venture engineered wood products facility was honored with an Innovation in Safety Award by APA – The Engineered Wood Association through its Safety and Health Awards program, which celebrates safety and operational excellence in the structural panel and engineered wood industry. The association recognized the facility for equipment-based innovation to its sheet metal storage system, a project that has reduced the number of hazards for entrapment, increased productivity and minimized safety risks for the activity.

On April 15, 2019, two Resolute mills – Thunder Bay and Saint-Félicien – took top honors in Pulp & Paper Canada’s 2018 Safest Mills in Canada contest for their outstanding safety record. Our Thunder Bay (Ontario) pulp and paper mill placed first in category B (50,000 to 80,000 worker hours per month), and our Saint-Félicien (Quebec) pulp mill placed first in category C (less than 50,000 worker hours per month).