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Neenah
Paper planning mill expansion |
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Associated Press |
Feb. 12, 2015
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APPLETON, Wis. — Neenah
Paper is bucking the industry trend of recent years.
It plans to build a new manufacturing plant in Appleton
to produce specialty filter paper, expanding the
company's Appleton Mill that encompasses about 10 acres.
The 44,000-square-foot plant will include manufacturing
space, offices and a tank farm for methanol and resin
storage.
"For us to be vibrant and looking at major investment,
not only in the Appleton Mill, but in the Valley, it's
just welcome," he said. "This will support the Fox
Valley, which is basically a paper industry
institution," said Howard Piotrowski, manager of the
Neenah Paper's Appleton and Neenah mills.
"We would actually make the base paper within the
Appleton Mill and then that paper would be transferred
to where this new building would be," Piotrowski said.
"We would put some chemical technology into it to create
the end product."
The Appleton Mill operates 24 hours a day, five to seven
days a week and employs 100 people on three shifts. The
new plant would also operate around the clock and could
result in an additional 20 jobs.
The company's plans follow years of closings and
consolidations in the paper making industry.
Post-Crescent Media says construction could begin in May
or June and be completed within two years if the
necessary permits are granted.
Piotrowski declined to disclose the estimated cost of
the project. |
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