Dec 21, 2011 | Industry Events
Starting January, 12, 2012, the Qualified Logging Professional Program will start the next QLP course. This course is a Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) 30 hr. approved course for safe and sustainable wood harvesting practices. The course will be held at So....
Sep 21, 2011 | Business Impact, Business News, Governor LePage, Industry Events, Industry News, LePage Administration
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — The new owners of the local paper mill toured the facility Wednesday for the first time since buying it last week and announced plans to have it fully operational by Oct. 10, with 215 workers starting to fill a...
Sep 19, 2011 | Business Impact, Business News, Economics, Governor LePage, Industry Events, Industry News, LePage Administration
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Two days of intensive work culminated late Friday with a New Hampshire investor’s purchase of two paper mills that will employ as many as 250 workers by mid-October and ignite a rebirth of a Katahdin region...
Feb 22, 2011 | Business Impact, Business News, Industry Events, Industry News
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — The Katahdin Paper Co. LLC paper mill on Main Street will close in 60 days if a pending deal to buy it and a closed sister mill in Millinocket is not consummated, company officials say. Katahdin Paper parent...
Oct 14, 2010 | Industry Events
Ponsse 8 Wheel Ergo Harvester and the Ponsse Buffalo King forwarder Demo Ponsse / Chadwick BaRoss are conducting a field demonstration of the new Ponsse 8 Wheel Ergo Harvester and the Ponsse Buffalo King forwarder on Tuesday, October 19 from 10 AM – 4 PM in the West...
Aug 25, 2010 | Industry Events
By Matt Wickenheiser Staff Writer Email Gubernatorial contender Elizabeth “Libby” Mitchell has pulled out of a Thursday morning forum because two unenrolled candidates were not invited to attend, organizers said this morning. Mitchell, a Democrat, Republican Paul...