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Chad Wasilenkoff  

Chad Wasilenkoff, Chairman, CEO and Director, Fortress Paper

In This Issue
BNN Commodities With Andrew Bell Interviews Fortress Paper CEO
National Post Speaks with Chad; the Contrarian Investor
Visit Global Paper Security Blog!
BBC at Landquart Facility
Report on Business Interviews Fortress Chief
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Pulp to drive growth at Fortress Paper
Chad on BNN
Chad Wasilenkoff was interviewed on

the "Commodities with Andrew Bell" show on October 11th 2011. Fortress Paper, the maker of banknotes and other specialty paper, has begun the conversion of its Quebec-based mill so that it can produce dissolving pulp, a key component in the production of rayon.

  

Click to watch the interview below:

BNN Interview 

 
Contrarian investing 

National Post

The National Post's Danny Bradbury sat down with Chad Wasilenkoff to learn more about why he is no ordinary investor. "When others are investing in popular stocks and commodities, the chief executive of Vancouver-based Fortress Paper Ltd. is investing in businesses that would - and do - make bankers run in the opposite direction."  Read Danny's interview:

 

National Post

 

 

Visit Global Paper Security Blog!
Fortress Paper

Be sure to visit Fortress Paper's blog at globalpapersecurity.com.  To see an example of Fortress Paper's work, take a look at any Swiss Franc printed after 1979. At the Landqart Mill located in Switzerland, Fortress produces security papers such as banknote, visa, and passport papers.  

Global Paper Security Blog 
How to make money from making money
BBC
The BBC visited Fortress Paper's facility in Landquart, Switzerland in September to learn about the process of making banknotes. In a video featured in the BBC's Business section, Marco Ziethen, the production manager at Landquart, takes reporter Lucy Burton through a step-by-step guide to manufacturing banknotes. From importing, refining and bleaching cotton, Ziethen showed how cotton gets turned into currency. Ziethen also explained how, as the paper is being made, security features are embedded in order to prevent counterfeiting of whatever currency is being produced.
 
Fortress Paper chief turns tired mill into major venture  

 Report on Business

In this edition of Talking to Entrepreneurs, Chad Wasilenkoff, CEO and Chairman of Fortress Paper, discusses his contrarian approach to investing, and how he turned a fledging pulp and paper mill into a profitable venture with Report on Business.

I invite you to speak with Fortress Paper's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Chadwick Wasilenkoff, a man with the license to print money.  

 

Best wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season.

Sincerely,
VertiCrop 

Nancy Tamosaitis-Thompson