The Katahdin Paper Co.’s mill in Millinocket will stay open past the previously announced shutdown date, but the reprieve is a short one.
Katahdin Paper officials said in late May that it would shut down the mill, which makes paper for catalogues and magazines, on July 28 due to the high cost of oil, and lay off the mill’s 208 employees. However, enough orders have come in to keep the mill open until Aug. 9, according to the Bangor Daily News.
Meanwhile, the company is talking to two companies about retrofitting a biomass boiler to ease the mill’s reliance on oil, Duane Lugdon, a representative for the United Steelworkers union, which has 350 members at Katahdin’s mills in Millinocket and East Millinocket, told the newspaper.
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