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...putting nearly 616 people out of work.Potlatch made the sales agreement with South African-based Sappi Limited for the Cloquet mill and related assets for $480 million in cash.A non-compete clause was attached preventing coated paper-making in...
...putting nearly 616 people out of work.Potlatch made the sales agreement with South African-based Sappi Limited for the Cloquet mill and related assets for $480 million in cash. A non-compete clause was attached preventing coated paper-making...
CLOQUET, Minn. (AP) - With demand for paper declining in the electronic age, a Cloquet company that has been making pulp for paper mills for 113 years is converting to serve the textile industry. Sappi Fine Paper has secured permits from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to begin construction on a $170 million project to convert its mill. The project is the first of its kind in Minnesota, according to the Duluth News Tribune (http://bit.ly/wsm8wN ).
...Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union represents union workers in Cloquet and Brainerd. The Cloquet mill had 1,100 jobs. After the sale was announced, Sappi told workers in Cloquet they had to reapply for their jobs...
...numbers are somewhere in the future. Photos "We're in the process right now negotiating with unions for Brainerd and Cloquet mills," said Mike Birkeland, Potlatch spokesman. "We do know there will be additional work force reductions on the hourly...
...fully used this year. The Cloquet pulp and paper mill is expected to remain in operation during the holidays. The Cloquet mill is directly tied to the pulp mill and pulp markets are solid right now, the company reported. In order to shut down...
...Potlatch local union representatives today issued a response to the Tuesday announcement of layoffs at the Brainerd and Cloquet mills. Union concerns stretched from competition from foreign nations and an impression that layoffs could have been reduced...
...the Northwest Paper Co. along the banks of the St. Louis River in Cloquet. Potlatch centennial editions report the Cloquet mill produced its first newsprint on April 8, 1899. But the company, which merged with Potlatch Forests, Inc. in 1964...
...language in the sale agreement between Potlatch and Sappi, the buyer of Potlatch's printing papers division and its Cloquet mill. Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch sued Potlatch and Sappi earlier this month saying their $480 million sale agreement...
...Despite flooded market, Potlatch reported Brainerd and Cloquet mills were operating at capacity. Potlatch reported its first...African Pulp and Paper Industries Limited, for the Cloquet mill and related assets for $480 million in cash. Potlatch...