NewPage to stop Rumford paper machine indefinitely
NewPage’s Rumford paper mill will stop production on its No. 12 paper machine in mid-February in response to falling demand for coated paper and increasing competition from abroad, a move a union official told the Sun Journal could affect up to 120 workers.
The Bangor Daily News first reported Tuesday that the mill plans to shut down its No. 12 paper machine, which produces roughly 300 tons of coated paper per day for magazines and catalogs, in mid-February. The No. 12 machine is the mill’s smallest and oldest, built in 1948. Ron Hemingway, president of Local 900 United Steelworkers union, told the Sun Journal that 25 people work on that machine but he expects around 120 could face layoffs.
Company spokesman Anthony Lyons told the BDN the number of employees affected has not been determined and that the company plans to transition some of that machine’s work to other machines in Rumford and at other NewPage mills.
NewPage Corp., which is headquartered in Ohio and owns mills in five other states, emerged from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring late last year.
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