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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-043010"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001381531"
company_name: "Domtar CORP"
filed_at: "2024-02-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T16:51:43.098289+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Domtar to idle Ashdown paper machine, cut 216K tons capacity, take $32M charge

## Summary
- Indefinite curtailment of A62 paper machine and sheeter by end of June 2024.
- Reduces annual uncoated freesheet capacity by 216,000 short tons.
- Pre-tax charge of ~$32M ($31M non-cash accelerated depreciation/write-offs, $1M other costs).
- Ashdown mill will restart pulp dryer, adding 165,000 ADMT of southern bleached softwood kraft pulp.
- No workforce reduction; tentative union agreement with no layoffs expected upon ratification.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-043010
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001381531
- company_name: Domtar CORP
- filed_at: 2024-02-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1381531/000119312524043010/0001193125-24-043010-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1381531/000119312524043010/d786314d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-043010
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-043010.txt

## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  Domtar CORP announced a restructuring with charges of approximately $32 million affecting Ashdown, Arkansas facility (Ashdown Mill).
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: approximately $32 million
  - Affected area: Ashdown, Arkansas facility (Ashdown Mill)
  source text: The curtailment will result in an aggregate pre-tax charge to earnings of approximately $32 million, which includes an estimated $31 million in non-cash charges relating to the accelerated depreciation of the carrying amounts of manufacturing equipment and the write-off of related spare parts, and $1 million related to other costs.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1381531/000119312524043010/0001193125-24-043010-index.htm

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