LINCOLN — About 200 workers will be furloughed from Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC in response to a recovery boiler explosion last month that hampered the company’s ability to make pulp, company co-owner Keith Van Scotter said Wednesday. The layoffs affect about half the company’s workforce. The laid-off workers attend to the company’s two paper […]
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Rumford town manager ‘disappointed’ with mill’s machine shutdown after tax reduction
RUMFORD — Town Manager Carlo Puiia said Tuesday that he is disappointed that NewPage Corp. will shut down its No. 12 paper machine indefinitely by mid-February. Ron Hemingway, president of the Local 900 United Steelworkers, told the Sun Journal that “around 120 people” may be affected by that shutdown. “Well, the mill’s been very forward […]
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Feds, state offered tax breaks and loan guarantee to reopen East Millinocket paper mill
Cate Street Capital had never before run a paper mill, and arguably the company’s biggest reason for coming to Maine is to try a commercial untested technology without contractually guaranteed customers or suppliers. But the New Hampshire investment group, its subsidiaries and its investors have received at least $142 million in tax breaks and a […]
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Firefighters extinguish fire in pipe at Jay paper mill Sunday
JAY — About 40 firefighters from three towns responded to a fire at Verso Paper Corp.’s Androscoggin Mill at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Verso’s fire brigade fought the fire before they arrived. No one was injured. The fire was in an insulated gas pipe outside the paper mill between the power house and the pulp mill, […]