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Pixelle CEO Timothy Hess said in part that the plan keeps a large number of employees working and said the company would continue to invest in the mill. Specifically, the company will invest $1 million in retraining former mill employees displaced as a result of the explosion.
No one was injured in the incident, which stopped manufacturing at the mill for eight days.
Dana Doran, executive director of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine, said Wednesday that the Jay mill represented about 23 percent of the pulp market for the state and added $619 million to the Maine economy in 2017. He said the loss of the machine has already contributed to a 30 to 40 percent reduction in wood markets for most members of the trade association, and the permanent loss of the digester would compound severe revenue losses, layoffs, loss of clients, reduced productivity and inability to plan for the future.
Jay mill to permanently idle paper machine, not rebuild pulp mill
Pixelle establishes $1 million fund to support retraining for employees laid off after the Androscoggin Mill pulp digester exploded in April.
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A section of the Androscoggin Mill is heavily damaged in April when a pulp digester explodes. Pixelle Specialty Papers announced Wednesday it will not rebuild its pulp mill and will permanently idle its third paper machine.
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JAY The owner of the Androscoggin Mill announced Wednesday that it will not rebuild a wood pulp digester that exploded April 15 and will permanently shut down one paper machine idled by the blast.