Volume 4, Number 2
May 1991

Company News

• Scott Paper Co., which invested a lot in its quality coated printing paper business in 1989 and 1990, is now looking to sell assets not essential to the company's core businesses, including its mill in Westbrook, Maine, which makes quality coated printing papers. The Westbrook Mill, formerly referred to as "Cumberland Mills" because of its location in Cumberland County, Maine, is where Aquapel was first used commercially in 1953. Sutermeister's research lab papers are still in the library there. The mill makes about 385 tons per day. Warren has owned it since 1854.
• English China Clays has acquired Georgia Kaolin, a subsidiary of ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd., and formed a new company of it, called ECC International. Georgia Kaolin had previously purchased GK Carbonate, a spinoff from Continental Lime formed to make PCC. Continental Lime had formerly absorbed Steel Brothers, a PCC supplier, that built the PCC plant for Weyerhaeuser's Prince Albert Mill.

"So, naturalists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum."
-Jonathan Swift, 1733

• The Canadian Pacific Forest Products mill at Dryden, Ontario, has added another paper machine, bringing the production capacity to 285,000 tpy or about 800 tons/day. Trillium (which is what they call it) has produced alkaline paper from Day One. The whole mill is alkaline.