Canson expanded the plant at 21 Industrial Drive in 1995 and again 2008. Over the years Canson made sketch pads, note cards, scrap books, journals and distributed artist paints.

Canson was a French company in 1985 when it bought the art paper business from the former Ampad in Holyoke. The company moved to South Hadley in 1988. Canson expanded the plant at 21 Industrial ...