SUN JOURNAL • May 3, 2021
Pixelle Specialty Solutions, owner of the Androscoggin Mill in Jay, has filed a lawsuit against contractors, Trico Mechanical Contractors, Inc. responsible for inspecting and providing maintenance on the pulp digesters in the years preceding the equipment’s rupture on April 15, 2020. One of two pulp digesters, known as digester A, ruptured and fell on the second digester, digester B, destroying both in the process. The loss resulted in the mill shutting down one paper machine and not rebuilding its pulp mill. The company’s insurance provider, Factory Mutual Insurance Co., has paid $350 million to Pixelle.