# Bowater

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{{short description|Former pulp and paper company}}
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| name             = Bowater Inc.
| logo             = Bowater logo.svg
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| type             = [Public](/source/Public_company)
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| industry         = Pulp and paper, wood products
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| successor        = [Resolute Forest Products](/source/Resolute_Forest_Products)
| foundation       = {{Start date|1984}}
| founder          = [William Vansittart Bowater](/source/William_Vansittart_Bowater)
| defunct          = {{End date|2007}}
| location_city    = [Greenville, South Carolina](/source/Greenville%2C_South_Carolina)
| location_country = United States
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| area_served      = North America
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| products         = [Newsprint](/source/Newsprint), uncoated groundwood, wood products, recycling services, lumber
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'''Bowater Inc.''' was a paper and pulp business headquartered in [Greenville, South Carolina](/source/Greenville%2C_South_Carolina). It merged with [Abitibi-Consolidated](/source/Abitibi-Consolidated) in 2007, and the combined company went on to become [Resolute Forest Products](/source/Resolute_Forest_Products).

==History==
The North American assets of [Bowater plc](/source/Rexam) were built up in the 1970s, becoming known as Bowater Inc., headquartered in [Greenville, South Carolina](/source/Greenville%2C_South_Carolina). The company demerged from Bowater plc in 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/04/business/business-people-bowater-executive-to-head-us-spinoff.html|title=Bowater Executive to lead US spin-off|work=New York Times|year=1984|accessdate=11 August 2018}}</ref>

The company acquired additional Canadian interests in the late 1990s, when it bought Avenor (formerly [Canadian Pacific Forest Products](/source/Canadian_Pacific_Limited)). By the mid-2000s, Bowater Inc had 10,000 employees across 12 pulp and paper mills in the United States, Canada and [South Korea](/source/South_Korea), along with 13 North American sawmills. On 29 January 2007, Bowater Inc and [Abitibi-Consolidated](/source/Abitibi-Consolidated) announced they would be merging to create [AbitibiBowater](/source/AbitibiBowater).<ref>{{cite news|title=Abitibi, Bowater merging to create forestry giant |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/abitibi-bowater-merging-to-create-forestry-giant-1.632402 |work=CBC News |date=2007-01-30 |access-date=2007-02-26 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711031231/http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/01/29/abitibibowater.html |archive-date=July 11, 2007 }}</ref> 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 [Resolute Forest Products](/source/Resolute_Forest_Products).<ref>{{ cite news | url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/news-sources/?date=20111011&archive=cnw&slug=C2645 | title = AbitibiBowater Changing Name To Resolute Forest Products | date = 2011-10-11 | accessdate = 2011-10-14 | newspaper = The Globe and Mail | location=Toronto}}</ref><ref name="ntw2011-12-28">{{cite news |url=http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/business/article/1270861--new-name-for-abitibibowater|title=New name for AbitibiBowater|last=Forsyth|first=Paul|date=28 December 2011|publisher=NiagaraThisWeek.com|accessdate=31 December 2011}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
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Category:American companies established in 1881
Category:1881 establishments in South Carolina
Category:Pulp and paper companies of the United States
Category:American companies disestablished in 2007
Category:American companies established in 1984
Category:1984 establishments in South Carolina
Category: Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange

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