| Former type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Pulp and paper, wood products |
| Fate | Merged |
| Successor | AbitibiBowater Inc. |
| Founded | Greenville, South Carolina, USA (1997) |
| Defunct | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Greenville, South Carolina, USA |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Newsprint, Uncoated Groundwood, Wood Products, Recycling Services, Lumber |
| Employees | 10,000 at time of merger |
| Website | www.bowater.com |
Bowater was an American pulp and paper company based in Greenville, South Carolina. Bowater had 12 pulp and paper mills in the United States, Canada and South Korea and 13 North American sawmills. It had approximately 10,000 employees. Bowater acquired its Canadian interests in the late 1990s when they bought Avenor (formerly Canadian Pacific Forest Products).
The company was formed by demerger from Bowater-Scott, a joint venture between the British paper milling company created by William Vansittart Bowater and the Scott Paper Company.[1]
| Financial Information [2] | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 2001 | |
| Total revenue (US$M) | 2,581 | 2,454 |
| Net Earnings (Loss) (US$M) | (142) | 70.5 |
On January 29, 2007, Bowater and Abitibi-Consolidated announced they would be merging to create AbitibiBowater.[3] The merger created the third largest pulp and paper company in North America, and the eighth largest in the world.