SUN JOURNAL • December 10, 2020
Pixelle Specialty Solutions’ announcement Wednesday that the pulp digester destroyed in an explosion at its Jay mill in April will not be rebuilt. Pixelle announced it would permanently idle its third paper machine as a result of the ruptured digester and would not rebuild its pulp mill at the Androscoggin Mill. About 177 jobs have been eliminated since the explosion on April 15. The Professional Logging Contractors of Maine Executive Director Dana Doran said, “The Jay mill represented about 23% of the pulp market for the state of Maine, and that market is critical both to the financial survival of Maine logging and trucking firms.”