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International PaperBUCKSPORT MILLInternational Paper’s Bucksport mill was built in 1930 by the Maine Seaboard Paper Company, an affiliate of Central Maine Power Company, which had just completed the Wyman Dam at Bingham and needed a customer for its excess electric power. When the mill started on Thanksgiving Day in 1930, it had two paper machines manufacturing 300 tons of newsprint per day. The mill’s involvement with the magazine publishing industry began in 1946, when TIME, Inc. acquired the mill and engaged St. Regis Paper Company to operate it on a lease-purchase basis. St. Regis exercised its purchase option in 1947, but continued its relationship with TIME, Inc., which contracted for virtually all of the paper made on the mill’s No. 2 paper machine. Even today, TIME receives most of the paper made on No. 4 paper machine. In 1984, St. Regis merged with Champion, then in 2000 Champion merged with International Paper. Today, the Bucksport mill has an annual capacity of 482,800 tons of paper on four paper machines. The Bucksport mill is known for its quality lightweight coated paper which is used in 24 of the nation’s 25 leading publications and catalogs including: TIME, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, People, Good Housekeeping, Victoria’s Secret, Lillian Vernon and L.L. Bean, Better Homes & Gardens and Money. The Bucksport mill employs more than 1,000 people. In an increasingly competitive marketplace, Bucksport succeeds because of its employees’ commitment to safety, total quality and customer focus. Certainly, the size of the paper machines and the modern technology employed is impressive, but according to International Paper, none of their success could occur without the skill and dedication of the employees, who produce some of the finest lightweight coated paper in the world. FORESTRY OPERATIONS International Paper’s licensed professional foresters carefully manage over 1.3 million acres of Maine forests on a sustainable basis. The Company’s forest management program extends far beyond harvesting and growing trees by making “multiple use” a guiding principal of forest management. While both growing and harvesting the forests, International Paper also works to help protect watersheds, enhance the quality of lakes and streams, improve wildlife habitats and set aside areas that warrant special protection. In addition, most International Paper’s timberlands and access roads are open for the public’s enjoyment through hunting, fishing, hiking, camping and other outdoor recreational activities. ** International Paper is the world’s largest paper and forest products company. Businesses include paper, packaging and forest products. As one of the largest private forest landowners in the world, the company manages its forests under the principles of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFISM) program, a system that ensures the perpetual growing and harvesting of trees while protecting wildlife, plants, soil, air and water quality. Headquartered in the United States, International Paper has operations in nearly 50 countries and exports its products to more than 130 nations. International Paper ANDROSCOGGIN MILLThe Androscoggin mill began operations on the Androscoggin River in Jay, Maine, in 1965. The mill now includes a woodyard, three woodrooms, utilities, two continuous pulp digesters, two bleach plants, five paper machines and a deep well storage for finished paper products and is located on 425 acres. The mill employs more than 1,200 people. When the Androscoggin mill began operations, it only had two paper machines, but has expanded to five. The most recent major investment was a reconfiguration project, reflecting an investment of more than $100 million. The project reconfigured the existing No. 4 paper machine to produce lightweight, coated freesheet paper for the publication market such as Accolade(r). The new machine is able to produce 200,000 tons per year. The Androscoggin mill was the first mill in Maine to convert to elemental chlorine free bleaching. The mill uses both the kraft and groundwood pulp processes. Most of the pulp is bleached in the mill’s bleach plant. Wood fibers are subjected to several bleaching and washing steps to eliminate impurities, producing pulp with high brightness. Androscoggin’s five paper machines are each nearly as long as a football field and have the combined capacity to produce about 1,600 tons of paper per day - more than half a million tons of paper a year. Three paper machines make coated paper grades and two make uncoated. An average of 45 trucks and 10 rail cars leave the mill each day to deliver quality Androscoggin paper to International Paper customers. In their hands our papers become internationally recognized end-products - magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Redbook, Forbes, Smoke, Inc., Disney, Parents And The New Yorker; J.C. Penney, Eddie Bauer, This End Up and L.L.Bean catalogs; food wraps; microwave popcorn bags; a variety of specialty and office papers; and even the inserts in your Sunday paper. The Androscoggin mill operates 24 hours a day. The mill is nearly energy self-sufficient with four hydroelectric dams and five boilers in the power plant and a natural gas co-generation plant on site. Secondary by-products of the papermaking process are used as fuel in the boilers. The mill is recognized as a model of environmental excellence, and is the only paper mill in the Northeast to be invited into the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental leadership program. The mill also received Governor Angus King’s award for leadership in environmental excellence in pollution prevention. International Paper is a product of late 19th century industrial development on the Androscoggin River. In 1888 Hugh J. Chisholm built the Otis Falls Pulp Company mill in Jay, then the largest paper mill in the world. By the turn of the century Chisholm was a leading industrial figure in Maine. International Paper was incorporated on January 31, 1898; corporate headquarters were in Portland, Maine. In 1998, our facilities around the world celebrated a century of International Paper and we look forward to the next 100 years. International Paper |