Seeking symbiotic relationships:Plenty of room for complementary businesses at Port Hawkesbury Paper site

摘要

In 2012, when Vancouver-based Stern Partners purchased the idled NewPage mill in Point Tupper, N.S., they likely did not do so on the basis of optimistic projections for the global paper market. Having done their homework, they would have recognized that there were good reasons the previous owners had been forced into bankruptcy the previous year. But investment firms like Stern are not oriented toward the production of commodities; they are in the business of amassing assets that can generate value.