Apr 17, 2008. /Lesprom.com/. A Canadian paper company will add 90 jobs to its Fort Mill operations, boosting employment at the Interstate 77 center to close to 300. Domtar Corp. will bring executives along with information-technology, planning and customer-service jobs to the center, which is in Kingsley Park. Moving the additional jobs to Fort Mill cost the company about $1 million, says Michel Rathier, vice president of corporate communications. "We are bringing operations closer to our mill base," he says. Domtar operates a paper plant in Bennettsville, S.C., along with processing plants in Rock Hill and Tatum, S.C. Most of Domtar's paper mills are in the Southeast. The move fits with York County's push to attract more office and corporate operations to the county, says Buddy Motz, chairman of York County Council. The county wants to be "the preferred location in the Charlotte region" for white-collar jobs, he says. S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford announced the new jobs in a press release, saying they show the state can attract high-paying jobs. Rathier says the employees will be "well-paid" but declines to release average salaries for the jobs. The Fort Mill office dates to 1998, when Willamette Industries Inc. established an East Coast headquarters there, anchoring the $80 million Kingsley Park development on S.C. Highway 160 at I-77. Weyerhaeuser Co. bought Willamette in 2002. Last year, Domtar merged with Weyerhaeuser's fine-paper and related businesses. Through all that, the Fort Mill staff grew from an initial 130 to the current 200 employees. Domtar is the largest North American manufacturer of "uncoated freesheet" paper, such as printer and copy-machine paper.