Shuttered Maine mill is close to getting first new tenant
February 11, 2021 GMT
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) A startup company plans to lease part of a former paper mill in northern Maine for a facility that converts wood into a product used by farmers.
The Portland company, Standard Biocarbon Corp., intends to perform the work at the former Great Northern Paper mill in East Millinocket. The company signed a letter of intent with East Millinocket Industrials to occupy some 25,000 square feet of the former mill, the Bangor Daily News reported.
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The mill was a major employer in northern Maine that closed in 2014. Standard Biocarbon would be the first new tenant to move into the site.
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A new Maine company plans to build a plant that will sequester carbon from Maine forests at the former Great Northern paper mill site in East Millinocket.
Standard Biocarbon Corp. has signed a letter of intent with the East Millinocket Industrials Inc. board of directors to site a pyrolysis plant at the former mill site. If completed as planned, the plant would convert low-grade biomass into biocarbon, the carbon component of wood.
The company said in a news release it s the first step in establishing biocarbon as a viable sustainable forest products industry in Maine, one that will also help cool the planet.