Billerud Will Not Proceed with Plans to Convert Escanaba Mill to Cartonboard Production
Billerud's Board of Directors has decided to not proceed with plans to convert its Escanaba mill to cartonboard production.
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Billerud's Board of Directors has decided to not proceed with plans to convert its Escanaba mill to cartonboard production.
LANSING — Lawmakers on Thursday passed $1.1 billion-plus spending legislation that includes $200 million to modernize an Escanaba paper mill, a $150 million deposit into Michigan's new economic development fund and $100 million in grants to redevelop properties.The bills also would direct …
The buyer, Pennsylvania-based Pixelle Specialty Solutions, also purchased a Verso-owned mill in Wisconsin.
The paper company stopped paying when it closed its Duluth mill last year.
State aid sought to reopen Duluth paper mill Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/ALEX KORMANN alex.kormann@startribune.com/Star Tribune/TNS FILE-A buyer is eyeing the shuttered Verso paper mill in Duluth and is seeking millions in state support to help convert the mill to make tissue paper. DULUTH – The potential buyer of the shuttered Verso paper mill in Duluth could bring back 80 jobs and invest $25 million in the plant — if millions in state funding come through. ST Paper intends to buy the mill, which was idled indefinitely last summer, and c...