P&G Mehoopany mill down for good

Pulp & Paper, Jul 1999

Procter & Gamble Co:s (P&G) hardwood calcium-base sulfite mill in Mehoopany Pa., was closed permanently on May 3, and a contractor will dismantle and sell it. The 100,000 tpy mill provided about 30% of P&G's internal needs at the tissue and towel mill. When P&G announced the planned closure in March 1998, it said the mill no longer fit its long-term strategy because the fiber no longer matched its future needs and the mill no longer had a fiber cost advantage.

The company said the Environmental Protection Agency's Cluster Rules had no impact on the decision to close the mill. Mehoopany was P&G's last pulp mill.