NorskeCanada

NorskeCanada (formerly Norske Skog Canada and now Catalyst Paper) was a Canadian pulp and paper company based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Financial Information
	2002	2001
Net Sales (C$M)	1,482.3	1,388.7
Net Earnings (C$M)	(123.3)	44.5

Its stock symbol on the Toronto Stock Exchange was NS.

In 2000, Norske Skog, a Norwegian paper company, acquired the pulp and paper assets of Fletcher Challenge, a New Zealand based multinational. Fletcher Challenge's Canadian assets were renamed Norske Skog Canada Limited. In August 2001, Norske Skog Canada acquired Pacifica Papers, which, in turn, had been formed in 1998 from MacMillan Bloedel's paper assets.

NorskeCanada was renamed Catalyst Paper Corporation in 2005.

External links

* [http://www.catalystpaper.com/ Catalyst Paper web site]
* [http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NS.TO&d=t Yahoo profile]