Employees return to work at Rumford paper mill following machine restart
The indefinite shutdown of the No. 12 paper machine at the Rumford Catalyst Paper Holdings mill has come to an end as the mill has restarted production, bringing back 51 employees who were laid off after the parent company ceased operation of the machine in September.
Tony Lyons, a spokesman for Catalyst at the Rumford mill, told the Bangor Daily News that the No. 12 paper machine will operate at a reduced schedule tied to the demand it receives for its limited run of its Rumford Offset grade paper.
The BDN reports that the uncoated freesheet paper being produced by the No. 12 paper machine is new to both the mill and its parent company, and was developed following an effort by Catalyst to “hone its offerings.”
“We have put a lot of effort and resources [into] migrating our grade mix to a more profitable mix of products,” Lyons told the BDN.
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