Domtar company officials said an uncoated paper machine in its Maine facility would be shut down from April 16 until May 21 because of unfavorable market conditions.
The company already temporarily has shut down its the cut-size operation — the equipment that turns large rolls of paper into 8½-by-11-inch sheets The shutdown will affect about 100 employees. The company has about 500 workers.
The rest of the mill — those machines that produce pulp — will continue to operate.
The mill in Maine began in 1906 as part of St. Croix Paper Co. The Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific Corp. bought it in 1963 and sold it to Domtar in 2000. The mill, with its aging paper machine, for years has had to compete with international mills that have come on line with new and faster equipment.
Last year the Montreal-based Domtar reached an agreement with Weyerhaeuser Co. to combine its fine-paper business with the Canadian papermaker in a deal that is valued at around $3.3 billion.
Domtar is the third-largest producer of uncoated, free-sheet paper in North America. It is also a leading manufacturer of business papers, commercial printing and publication papers, and technical and specialty papers.
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