In 2000 Norske Skog bought the British Columbia-based Fletcher Challenge Canada with nine mills and Pacifica Papers (formerly MacMillan Bloedel) and created NorskeCanada.

The closure of the Union paper mill in Skien in 2005 caused a massive outcry, including protests from a number of politicians.

Ombudstvedt was previously chief financial officer and a management board member of Yara International and strategy director of Norsk Hydro.

[9] However, the operations continued, and was reorganized under a new parent company, Norske Skog ASA, which was reintroduced to the Oslo Stock Exchange in October 2019.

In 2020, it was announced that two paper machines, at Bruck an der Mur in Austria and Golbey in France, would be converted to produce recycled containerboard.

[11] The company is also pursuing fibre-based growth initiatives under the brand names Cebina[12] and Cebico[13] as well as energy related projects such as biogas.

Norske Skog have effectively walked away from the responsibility to clean up the work site, by closing the paper mill plant, they are refusing to engage with local indigenous Maori, guardians of the environment.

Norske Skog hide behind out dated and old legislation that gave them the legal means to pollute on such a huge scale.