RUMFORD, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --
A California-based company will restart a machine at the Rumford mill Tuesday while at the same time this week introducing an uncoated freesheet offset paper grade that is being made on the machine.
In a four-page report for customers, the company, Catalyst Paper, said it will make 50-, 60-, and 70-lb offset paper with 91 brightness out of 100% virgin pulp on PM 12. The offset paper is available with May manufacturing runs on the machine, the company said.
“This machine will make both coated and uncoated products,” the company said. “Rumford Offset production will be available from regularly scheduled runs.”
The machine was indefinitely idled last September. The shut of PM 12 reduced Catalyst Paper’s coated printing and writing paper production by about 88,000 tons/yr, the company said in its annual report.
The Rumford mill produces about 260,000 tons of coated freesheet, about 170,000 tons of coated groundwood, and about 52,000 tons of specialty coated one-sided paper annually. Also, the mill produces about 115,000 tons of market pulp.
Catalyst makes uncoated groundwood paper at some of its other mills, but does not make uncoated freesheet paper at any other mill in its system.
