Permanent Closure Of Central Maine Mill Delayed
The iconic mill has been open for over 50 years
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The iconic mill has been open for over 50 years
It is the fourth time since 2013 that state lowered the town's valuation.
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...