May 04, 2005. /Lesprom Network/. Cascades Inc. (CAS-TSX) is announcing that an agreement in principle has been entered into between the National Association of Pulp and Boxboard Employees of Jonquiere, affiliated with the CSN, and Cascades FjordCell, a virgin pulp manufacturing unit. Mr. Eric Laflamme, President of Cascades Boxboard Group, observed : "The agreement entered into with the Union will enable us to get off to a new start and will ensure that the mill is better positioned to cope with an increasingly competitive market." Inaugurated in 1997, this mill will include approximately 85 employees when it resumes its operations and will manufacture northern bleached softwood kraft pulp (NBSK). This pulp is used primarily to manufacture folding cartons, fine papers and tissue and is sold on North American markets.