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Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Paper Because

Click the title "Paper Because" for more facts.

We've probably all received an email from someone with a note at the bottom, "consider the environment before printing this"

It sounds thoughtful and harmless enough, but it may leave with you with the wrong impression about the paper industry.

Domtar Paper is one of the largest employers in Kingsport. More than $500,000,000 (half a billion) has been spent to modernize and upgrade the downtown plant facility over the past 10 years and a new facility was built in the Ridgefields Industrial Park that provides copy paper for Office Depot and Staples throughout the eastern U.S.

So go to www.paperbecause.com and check the facts. Paper is sustainable. Paper is personal. Paper is purposeful. Because underneath all the wireless, streaming technology, we're still people.

Domtar is one of the 100 greenest companies in America.

On a personal note, Domtar employees are just some of the best folks around. Not only are they participants in virtually every one of our city's groundbreakings, ribbon-cuttings, festivals, charitable events, economic/education/technology initiatives, in many cases they're leading the charge.

Jeff

Tilden J. Fleming, AICP
Assistant City Manager for Development
Kingsport, Tennessee
423.229.9381 (desk/cell)
JeffFleming@KingsportTN.gov
www.development.KingsportTN.gov
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