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Between the two paper mills, about 1,000 employees were expected to be laid off, with 900 of those at the Wisconsin Rapids Mill. [15] In January 2021, Verso announced that it no longer planned on restarting its Duluth mill, citing a decrease in demand as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
J.D. Irving Limited (JDI) traces its roots to a sawmill operated in Bouctouche, New Brunswick by its namesake, James Dergavel Irving. [1] J.D. Irving's operations were passed to his children, one of whom, Kenneth Colin Irving, assumed majority ownership and used JDI to expand into pulp and paper and other forestry-related businesses between the 1920s and 1940s.
Pennsylvania Paper and Supply Company, situated in Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a privately owned wholesaler specializing in facilities management, industrial packaging, equipment, and supplies. Established in 1922, it holds the distinction of being one of the oldest businesses in the state still managed by a direct descendant of its founders.
Google, H&M, Stripe and other members of the climate-focused Frontier coalition will buy $80 million of carbon credits from a firm using oil industry technology to capture paper mill emissions and ...
The mill was acquired by St Marys Paper Inc. from Abitibi in 1984, [2] [3] for which loan guarantees were secured from the Government of Canada. [6] St Marys Paper was controlled by a private investor, Dan Alexander, who arranged to invest heavily in a fifth paper machine. [2]
After nearly sixty years, St. Joe decided to get out of the paper business. The mill was sold in 1996 to Florida Coast Paper for $390 million, and that company was able to operate and produce paper until the decline of the container board market. Florida Coast Paper closed the mill on August 16, 1998, [22] and did not reopen. The mill was gone ...
The International Paper strike was a strike begun in 1987 by paper mill workers affiliated with the United Paperworkers' International Union (UPIU) at a number of plants in the United States owned by the International Paper (IP) company. The strike extended into 1988 and the company hired permanent replacements for workers.
The United States is one of the biggest paper consumers in the world. Between 1990 and 2002, paper consumption in the United States increased from 84.9 million tons to 97.3 million tons. In 2006, there were approximately 450 paper mills in the United States, accounting for $68 billion. [1]