20.3: Percent who described the forest products industry as healthy in a phone survey
32: Percent who considered it dying, same survey
$379,761: Average paper sales per employee
$421,814: U.S. industry average
$532: Average cost to make a ton of magazine-style paper
$582: U.S. industry average
$1.24 billion: Value of paper as gross state product, 2003
3.9 million: Tons of paper made, 1997
3.7 million: Tons of paper made, 2001
1: Number of new paper-making machines installed in state in the last 20 years
1: Number of paper mills currently considering a machine rebuild, as indicated to the Department of Environmental Protection
Source: Maine Future Forest Economy Project, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, American Forest & Paper Association
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