Mill Conversions

Willamette Industries has three mills that make fine paper, counting the Penntech Papers mill in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, that they bought last year, and all three are alkaline. This qualifies Willamette as a "100% alkaline company" and puts it an the list of such companies that appears elsewhere in this newsletter. Although it produces more paper than most of the companies on the list, its name does not appear in Walden's Paper Catalog because most of it is exported and/or sold direct to the end user. Most or all of Willamette papers meet both the ANSI and the ASTM standards, the maximum permanence level.
The Hawesville, Kentucky, mill converted in December 1989; the Bennettsville, South Carolina, mill converted on December 9, 1990. Both have, or will have, PCC plants built by GK Carbonate.
The Penntech mill in Johnsonburg, which is listed in Walden's, converted an December 27, 1990.
James River's mill in Camas, Washington, converted its last machine to alkaline on January 29. The Camas mill is one of two James River mills that are 100%. alkaline, out of -about a dozen that make printing and writing papers. A third mill, West Linn, converted its two freesheet machines in April 1990, and was sold to Simpson soon thereafter.
Strathmore's Woronoko #1 mill converted in late 1990. Next on the agenda: Woronoko #2, then Turners Falls. The Millers Falls mill converted in 1989.