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Rumford Mill is a pulp mill and paper mill located in the United States town of Rumford, Maine. The mill has two kraft pulp lines and three paper machines. The mill produces 460,000 tonnes of kraft pulp and 565,000 tonnes of paper annually. The mill has 621 employees as of 2016. [1]
In 2006, International Paper sold the plant to Verso Holdings, LLC, and 1,000 people worked in the mill at that time. In 2015, Verso laid off 300 workers. A year later, it filed for bankruptcy. In 2017, it laid off an additional 300 people and idled a machine. In April 2020, a wood pulp digester exploded, destroying the mill's pulp machines. [3]
Fort James Corporation was an American pulp and paper company based in Deerfield, Illinois. [3] Its products were sold under a variety of brand names, which included Brawny, Mardi Gras, and Quilted Northern. [4] [5] At the time of its acquisition, Fort James Corporation was the United States' largest manufacturer of commercial tissue. [5]
The following is a list of previous names and corporate entities that were involved in the pulp and paper industry. Pages in category "Defunct pulp and paper companies" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
The first mill of the Parsons Paper Company, with expansions, c. 1897 Founded by its namesake Joseph C. Parsons in 1853, the company was established with $60,000 in capital and initially met resistance from the Hadley Falls Company which established Holyoke, as they only had one mill site at that time and regarded a small paper company as poor use of their new canal system, arguing a textile ...
The company had assets of nearly $100 million, over 350,000 acres of timberland, and paper mills throughout the Pacific Coast capable of producing 1450 tons of finished paper daily. [3] It expanded steadily throughout the 1930s and substantially during the second world war when European paper manufacturers no longer exported to the United States.
The company was founded in 1969 as the James River Paper Company by Brenton Halsey and Robert Williams, with the purchase of Ethyl Corporation's Specialty Papers Division. [2] Halsey and Williams were both former employees of Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company ; the city of Richmond lies along the James River .