NewPage

NewPage Corporation

Type	Private
Industry	Papermaking
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Miamisburg, Ohio
Key people	Robert L. Nardelli, Chairman George F. Martin President & CEO Jay A. Epstein SVP CFO Daniel A. Clark SVP Business Excellence and CIO Barry R. Nelson SVP Sales and Marketing Douglas K. Cooper VP General Counsel and Secretary Amber S. Garwood VP Communications and Government Affairs L. Mark Lukacs VP Manufacturing Operations
Products	Paper
Owner(s)	Cerberus Capital Management
Website	www.newpagecorp.com

NewPage Corporation, based in Miamisburg, Ohio, is a leading producer of coated paper in North America.

The company produces coated papers in sheets and rolls with many finishes and weights to offer design flexibility for a wide array of end uses. With 8,000 employees, NewPage operates 9 paper mills with 18 paper machines in the United States.

Annual production consists of 4.5 million short tons of paper (3.3 million short tons of coated paper, 900,000 short tons of uncoated paper, 300,000 short tons of specialty paper) and 3.2 million short tons of pulp.

Operations

NewPage Corporation's headquarters building in Miamisburg was the first structure in Ohio to receive a "Green Globes" certification for its sustainability, energy efficiency, low water consumption and employee environment.

Biron Mill

Begun in 1873 as a sawmill, the Biron Mill is located in Biron, Wisconsin and includes two paper machines with a capacity to produce approximately 400,000 tons per year of lightweight and medium-weight coated papers used primarily for magazines and catalogs. The mill has five boilers and four turbines that provide steam to the mill and 40% of the electricity to run the mill.

Duluth Mill

The Duluth Mill is located in Duluth, Minnesota and began operations in 1987. Its single paper machine produces several grades of supercalendered paper used for catalogs, magazines, advertising inserts and other commercial printing. This mill is the top producer of supercalendered paper in the United States with annual capacity of approximately 250,000 tons. The Duluth Recycled Pulp Mill started as a greenfield operation in 1993, producing high-quality recycled pulp. Facility recycles nearly 1 million pounds of recovered paper each day.

Escanaba Mill

The Escanaba Mill is located in Escanaba, Michigan and opened in the early 1900s. Today the facility has one kraft and one refiner mechanical pulp (RMP) mill, three paper machines and three off-machine coaters plus supporting equipment and one pulp dryer. The mill produces approximately 770,000 tons per year of paper and about 500,000 tons per year of hardwood, softwood and refiner mechanical pulp.

Luke Mill

The Luke Mill is located in Luke, Maryland, having been established in 1888. Today it has one kraft pulp mill and two paper machines. At this location, the company can produce 520,000 tons per year of paper and approximately 411,000 tons per year of hardwood and softwood pulp.

Rumford Mill

The Rumford Mill is located in Rumford, Maine and opened in 1901. Today it has one kraft and one groundwood pulp mill, three coated paper machines plus supporting equipment and one pulp dryer. Each year, the facility produces an average of 640,000 tons of paper and approximately 500,000 tons per year of hardwood, softwood and groundwood pulp.

Stevens Point Mill

The Stevens Point Mill is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, having opened in 1919 with a focus on fruit wrap, tissue, toweling and crepe paper. It has evolved into the production of flexible packaging papers, technical papers and label papers. The facility’s two paper machines have the capacity to produce 170,000 tons per year of these specialty papers.

Whiting Mill

The Whiting Mill was established in 1891 in Whiting, Wisconsin. It has two paper machines producing lightweight coated and ultra-lightweight coated papers primarily for magazines and catalogs. Its annual production capacity is about 220,000 tons per year. The mill has a groundwood-pulp and a thermomechanical-pulp operation on site to support its paper production. The company announced in December 2010 that it would be shutting down this mill by the end of February 2011.

Wickliffe Mill

The Wickliffe Mill is located in Wickliffe, Kentucky and opened in the late 1960s. It has a kraft pulp mill, one paper machine and one off-machine coater plus supporting equipment and two pulp dryers. The mill produces approximately 340,000 tons per year of paper and about 345,000 air-dried short tons of hardwood pulp per year.

Wisconsin Rapids Mill

The Wisconsin Rapids Mill is located in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin and opened in 1904. It currently has the capacity to produce approximately 520,000 tons per year of medium- to heavy-weight woodfree coated papers. It has an integrated pulp mill with a capacity of approximately 500,000 tons and a converting facility capable of approximately 400,000 tons of production with a fully automated storage and retrieval system for parent sheet rolls as well as finished inventory.

Closed or former facilities

• Niagara Mill, located in Niagara, Wisconsin (Closed in 2008)
• Kimberly Mill, located in Kimberly, Wisconsin (Closed in 2009)
• Chillicothe Mill, located in Chillicothe, Ohio (Sold in 2006 to Glatfelter; still operational)
• Port Hawkesbury Mill, located in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia (Closed in 2011)

History

Two of the mills can trace their roots to the West Virginia Paper Company (aka the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company and later, Westvaco) that was established in 1888 by William Luke on 50 acres (202,000 m²) of land along the Potomac River in an area known as "West Piedmont" (now Luke, Maryland). The mill in Luke remains a major economic factor in the area and its impact straddles the river into Beryl and Piedmont in West Virginia.

In 2005, MeadWestvaco's Printing and Writing Paper business was sold to investment firm Cerberus Capital Management for about $2.3 billion to form NewPage Corporation. NewPage originally constituted 5 pulp and paper manufacturing in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio. In April 2006, NewPage sold their carbonless operations located in Ohio for $84 million to global specialty papermaker P. H. Glatfelter Company, based in York, Pennsylvania. In 2007, NewPage Corporation purchased the North American assets of Stora Enso (formerly Consolidated Papers) which included mills in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia.

Chapter-11 Bankcruptcy

On September 7, 2011, the NewPage Corporation filed for chapter 11 bankcruptcy reorganization due to negative cash flow for more than a year.^[1]

References

1. ^ "NewPage's Bankruptcy Touches Off A Tussle Among Bondholders". September 7, 2011. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110907-715684.html. 

External links

• NewPage Corp. website