NewPage Corporation
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NewPage Corporation, based in Miamisburg, Ohio
, is a leading producer of coated paper
in North America.
The company produces coated paper
s in sheets and rolls with many finishes and weights to offer design flexibility for a wide array of end uses. With 8,000 employees, NewPage operates 9 paper mills with 18 paper machines in the United States
.
Annual production consists of 4.5 million short tons of paper (3.3 million short tons of coated paper, 900,000 short tons of uncoated paper, 300,000 short tons of specialty paper) and 3.2 million short tons of pulp.
Biron Mill
Begun in 1873 as a sawmill, the Biron Mill is located in Biron, Wisconsin
and includes two paper machines with a capacity to produce approximately 400,000 tons per year of lightweight and medium-weight coated papers used primarily for magazines and catalogs. The mill has five boilers and four turbines that provide steam to the mill and 40% of the electricity to run the mill.
Duluth Mill
The Duluth Mill is located in Duluth, Minnesota
and began operations in 1987. Its single paper machine produces several grades of supercalendered paper used for catalogs, magazines, advertising inserts and other commercial printing. This mill is the top producer of supercalendered paper in the United States with annual capacity of approximately 250,000 tons. The Duluth Recycled Pulp Mill started as a greenfield operation in 1993, producing high-quality recycled pulp. Facility recycles nearly 1 million pounds of recovered paper each day.
Escanaba Mill
The Escanaba Mill is located in Escanaba, Michigan
and opened in the early 1900s. Today the facility has one kraft and one refiner mechanical pulp (RMP) mill, three paper machines and three off-machine coaters plus supporting equipment and one pulp dryer. The mill produces approximately 770,000 tons per year of paper and about 500,000 tons per year of hardwood, softwood and refiner mechanical pulp.
Luke Mill
The Luke Mill is located in Luke, Maryland
, having been established in 1888. Today it has one kraft pulp mill and two paper machines. At this location, the company can produce 520,000 tons per year of paper and approximately 411,000 tons per year of hardwood and softwood pulp.
Rumford Mill
The Rumford Mill is located in Rumford, Maine and opened in 1901. Today it has one kraft and one groundwood pulp mill, three coated paper machines plus supporting equipment and one pulp dryer. Each year, the facility produces an average of 640,000 tons of paper and approximately 500,000 tons per year of hardwood, softwood and groundwood pulp.
Stevens Point Mill
The Stevens Point Mill is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
, having opened in 1919 with a focus on fruit wrap, tissue, toweling and crepe paper. It has evolved into the production of flexible packaging papers, technical papers and label papers. The facility’s two paper machines have the capacity to produce 170,000 tons per year of these specialty papers.
Whiting Mill
The Whiting Mill was established in 1891 in Whiting, Wisconsin
. It has two paper machines producing lightweight coated and ultra-lightweight coated papers primarily for magazines and catalogs. Its annual production capacity is about 220,000 tons per year. The mill has a groundwood-pulp and a thermomechanical-pulp operation on site to support its paper production. The company announced in December 2010 that it would be shutting down this mill by the end of February 2011.
Wickliffe Mill
The Wickliffe Mill is located in Wickliffe, Kentucky
and opened in the late 1960s. It has a kraft pulp mill, one paper machine and one off-machine coater plus supporting equipment and two pulp dryers. The mill produces approximately 340,000 tons per year of paper and about 345,000 air-dried short tons of hardwood pulp per year.
Wisconsin Rapids Mill
The Wisconsin Rapids Mill is located in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
and opened in 1904. It currently has the capacity to produce approximately 520,000 tons per year of medium- to heavy-weight woodfree coated papers. It has an integrated pulp mill with a capacity of approximately 500,000 tons and a converting facility capable of approximately 400,000 tons of production with a fully automated storage and retrieval system for parent sheet rolls as well as finished inventory.
on 50 acres (202,000 m²) of land along the Potomac River
in an area known as "West Piedmont" (now Luke, Maryland
). The mill in Luke remains a major economic factor in the area and its impact straddles the river into Beryl
and Piedmont
in West Virginia
.
In 2005, MeadWestvaco
's Printing and Writing Paper business was sold to investment firm Cerberus Capital Management
for about $2.3 billion to form NewPage Corporation. NewPage originally constituted 5 pulp and paper manufacturing in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio. In April 2006, NewPage sold their carbonless operations located in Ohio for $84 million to global specialty papermaker P. H. Glatfelter Company
, based in York, Pennsylvania
. In 2007, NewPage Corporation purchased the North American assets of Stora Enso
(formerly Consolidated Papers) which included mills in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia.
Chapter-11 Bankcruptcy
On September 7, 2011, the NewPage Corporation filed for chapter 11 bankcruptcy reorganization due to negative cash flow for more than a year.
Miamisburg, Ohio
Miamisburg is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. The population was 20,181 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area...
, is a leading producer of coated paper
Paper
Paper is a thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon, drawing or for packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
in North America.
The company produces coated paper
Coated paper
Coated paper is paper which has been coated by a compound to impart certain qualities to the paper, including weight, surface gloss, smoothness or reduced ink absorbency. Kaolinite or calcium carbonate are used to coat paper for high quality printing used in packaging industry and in magazines...
s in sheets and rolls with many finishes and weights to offer design flexibility for a wide array of end uses. With 8,000 employees, NewPage operates 9 paper mills with 18 paper machines in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Annual production consists of 4.5 million short tons of paper (3.3 million short tons of coated paper, 900,000 short tons of uncoated paper, 300,000 short tons of specialty paper) and 3.2 million short tons of pulp.
Operations
NewPage Corporation's headquarters building in Miamisburg was the first structure in Ohio to receive a "Green Globes" certification for its sustainability, energy efficiency, low water consumption and employee environment.Biron Mill
Begun in 1873 as a sawmill, the Biron Mill is located in Biron, Wisconsin
Biron, Wisconsin
Biron is a village in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 915 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Biron is located at ....
and includes two paper machines with a capacity to produce approximately 400,000 tons per year of lightweight and medium-weight coated papers used primarily for magazines and catalogs. The mill has five boilers and four turbines that provide steam to the mill and 40% of the electricity to run the mill.
Duluth Mill
The Duluth Mill is located in Duluth, Minnesota
Duluth, Minnesota
Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Saint Louis County. The fourth largest city in Minnesota, Duluth had a total population of 86,265 in the 2010 census. Duluth is also the second largest city that is located on Lake Superior after Thunder Bay, Ontario,...
and began operations in 1987. Its single paper machine produces several grades of supercalendered paper used for catalogs, magazines, advertising inserts and other commercial printing. This mill is the top producer of supercalendered paper in the United States with annual capacity of approximately 250,000 tons. The Duluth Recycled Pulp Mill started as a greenfield operation in 1993, producing high-quality recycled pulp. Facility recycles nearly 1 million pounds of recovered paper each day.
Escanaba Mill
The Escanaba Mill is located in Escanaba, Michigan
Escanaba, Michigan
Escanaba is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, located in the banana belt on the state's Upper Peninsula. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 13,140, making it the third-largest city in the Upper Peninsula after Marquette and Sault Ste. Marie...
and opened in the early 1900s. Today the facility has one kraft and one refiner mechanical pulp (RMP) mill, three paper machines and three off-machine coaters plus supporting equipment and one pulp dryer. The mill produces approximately 770,000 tons per year of paper and about 500,000 tons per year of hardwood, softwood and refiner mechanical pulp.
Luke Mill
The Luke Mill is located in Luke, Maryland
Luke, Maryland
Luke is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States located along the Georges Creek Valley. Known originally as West Piedmont, the town is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 80 at the 2000 census....
, having been established in 1888. Today it has one kraft pulp mill and two paper machines. At this location, the company can produce 520,000 tons per year of paper and approximately 411,000 tons per year of hardwood and softwood pulp.
Rumford Mill
The Rumford Mill is located in Rumford, Maine and opened in 1901. Today it has one kraft and one groundwood pulp mill, three coated paper machines plus supporting equipment and one pulp dryer. Each year, the facility produces an average of 640,000 tons of paper and approximately 500,000 tons per year of hardwood, softwood and groundwood pulp.
Stevens Point Mill
The Stevens Point Mill is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Stevens Point is the county seat of Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. Located in the central part of the state, it is the largest city in the county, with a population of 24,551 at the 2000 census...
, having opened in 1919 with a focus on fruit wrap, tissue, toweling and crepe paper. It has evolved into the production of flexible packaging papers, technical papers and label papers. The facility’s two paper machines have the capacity to produce 170,000 tons per year of these specialty papers.
Whiting Mill
The Whiting Mill was established in 1891 in Whiting, Wisconsin
Whiting, Wisconsin
Whiting is a village in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States and is a suburb of Stevens Point. It is included in the Stevens Point Micropolitan Statistical Area...
. It has two paper machines producing lightweight coated and ultra-lightweight coated papers primarily for magazines and catalogs. Its annual production capacity is about 220,000 tons per year. The mill has a groundwood-pulp and a thermomechanical-pulp operation on site to support its paper production. The company announced in December 2010 that it would be shutting down this mill by the end of February 2011.
Wickliffe Mill
The Wickliffe Mill is located in Wickliffe, Kentucky
Wickliffe, Kentucky
Wickliffe is a city in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 794 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Ballard County.Wickliffe is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Wickliffe is located at ....
and opened in the late 1960s. It has a kraft pulp mill, one paper machine and one off-machine coater plus supporting equipment and two pulp dryers. The mill produces approximately 340,000 tons per year of paper and about 345,000 air-dried short tons of hardwood pulp per year.
Wisconsin Rapids Mill
The Wisconsin Rapids Mill is located in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 18,435 at the 2000 census.According to the 2010 census, the Wisconsin Rapids micropolitan area was home to 54,362 people...
and opened in 1904. It currently has the capacity to produce approximately 520,000 tons per year of medium- to heavy-weight woodfree coated papers. It has an integrated pulp mill with a capacity of approximately 500,000 tons and a converting facility capable of approximately 400,000 tons of production with a fully automated storage and retrieval system for parent sheet rolls as well as finished inventory.
Closed or former facilities
- Niagara Mill, located in Niagara, WisconsinNiagara, WisconsinNiagara is a city in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,880 at the 2000 census. The city lies to the north of and adjacent to the Town of Niagara. It is part of the Marinette, WI–MI Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
(Closed in 2008) - Kimberly Mill, located in Kimberly, WisconsinKimberly, WisconsinKimberly is a village in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 6,146 at the 2000 census.-History:Kimberly was founded in 1889 and was named after John A...
(Closed in 2009) - Chillicothe Mill, located in Chillicothe, OhioChillicothe, OhioChillicothe is a city in and the county seat of Ross County, Ohio, United States.Chillicothe was the first and third capital of Ohio and is located in southern Ohio along the Scioto River. The name comes from the Shawnee name Chalahgawtha, meaning "principal town", as it was a major settlement of...
(Sold in 2006 to GlatfelterGlatfelterGlatfelter is a global manufacturer of specialty papers and engineered products, headquartered in York, Pennsylvania. U.S. operations include papermaking facilities in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, and Chillicothe and Fremont, Ohio...
; still operational) - Port Hawkesbury Mill, located in Point Tupper, Nova ScotiaPoint Tupper, Nova ScotiaPoint Tupper is a small rural community located in Richmond County, Nova Scotia on the Strait of Canso in western Cape Breton Island.-History:...
(Closed in 2011)
History
Two of the mills can trace their roots to the West Virginia Paper Company (aka the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company and later, Westvaco) that was established in 1888 by William LukeWilliam Luke
William Luke was the founder of the Westvaco Corporation in 1888 at Piedmont, West Virginia and West Piedmont, Maryland, USA.Luke came to America from Scotland in 1852. He was a pioneer of the modern art of papermaking....
on 50 acres (202,000 m²) of land along the Potomac River
Potomac River
The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. The river is approximately long, with a drainage area of about 14,700 square miles...
in an area known as "West Piedmont" (now Luke, Maryland
Luke, Maryland
Luke is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States located along the Georges Creek Valley. Known originally as West Piedmont, the town is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 80 at the 2000 census....
). The mill in Luke remains a major economic factor in the area and its impact straddles the river into Beryl
Beryl, West Virginia
Beryl was a once thriving town, but homes and properties were slowly purchased over the years by Westvaco paper company. By the late 1900s, all the residents were gone, and the last standing home became an office for the Westvaco woodyard. Currently, only New Page Paper and Kingsford Charcoal...
and Piedmont
Piedmont, West Virginia
Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 1,014 at the 2000 census. Piedmont was chartered in 1856...
in West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
.
In 2005, MeadWestvaco
MeadWestvaco
MeadWestvaco Corp. is an American packaging solutions company based in Richmond, Virginia. It has approximately 23,000 employees. In February 2006, it moved its corporate headquarters to Richmond, Virginia...
's Printing and Writing Paper business was sold to investment firm Cerberus Capital Management
Cerberus Capital Management
Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. is one of the largest private equity investment firms in the United States. The firm is based in New York City, and run by -year-old financier Steve Feinberg. Former U.S...
for about $2.3 billion to form NewPage Corporation. NewPage originally constituted 5 pulp and paper manufacturing in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio. In April 2006, NewPage sold their carbonless operations located in Ohio for $84 million to global specialty papermaker P. H. Glatfelter Company
Glatfelter
Glatfelter is a global manufacturer of specialty papers and engineered products, headquartered in York, Pennsylvania. U.S. operations include papermaking facilities in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, and Chillicothe and Fremont, Ohio...
, based in York, Pennsylvania
York, Pennsylvania
York, known as the White Rose City , is a city located in York County, Pennsylvania, United States which is in the South Central region of the state. The population within the city limits was 43,718 at the 2010 census, which was a 7.0% increase from the 2000 count of 40,862...
. In 2007, NewPage Corporation purchased the North American assets of Stora Enso
Stora Enso
Stora Enso Oyj is a Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer, formed by the merger of Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora and Finnish forestry products company Enso-Gutzeit Oy in 1998. It is headquartered in Helsinki, and it has approximately 29,000 employees...
(formerly Consolidated Papers) which included mills in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia.
Chapter-11 Bankcruptcy
On September 7, 2011, the NewPage Corporation filed for chapter 11 bankcruptcy reorganization due to negative cash flow for more than a year.