Sale Of Duluth Mill Points To Paper Industry Trends

evening sun shines on the beige walls and red and white striped smoke stacks of the verso paper mill Verso paper mill in Wisconsin Rapids stopped production at the mill at the end of July. Angela Major/WPR

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The sale of a closed paper mill in Duluth, Minnesota will bring back at least 80 jobs to the region. It's the latest move affecting Wisconsin workers in a roiling paper industry.

Verso Corp. announced Monday that it would sell its Duluth mill, which employed more than 200 people in the Duluth-Superior area before it closed last year, to the Virginia-based ST Paper and Tissue.

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Source: Wisconsin Public Radio

 

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