NewPage was a leading producer of printing and specialty

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s in

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with $3.1 billion in net sales for the year ended December 31, 2012. NewPage was headquartered in

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, and owned paper mills in

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and

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. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 3.5 million tons of paper. NewPage's Niagara Mill, located in

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closed in 2008, Kimberly Mill, located in

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closed in 2009, Chillicothe Mill, located in

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sold in 2006 to

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and is still operational, Port Hawkesbury Mill, located in

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closed in 2011, re-opened in 2012 by

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as Port Hawkesbury Paper) and Whiting Mill, located in

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closed in 2011. In 2015, the company was acquired by the

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History

Two of the mills can trace their roots to the West Virginia Paper Company (aka the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company and later, Westvaco) that was established in 1888 by

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on 50 acres (202,000 m²) of land along the

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in an area known as "West Piedmont" (now

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). The mill in Luke remained a major economic factor in the area straddling the river into

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and

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, until it was closed in 2019. In 2005,

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's Printing and Writing Paper business was sold to investment firm

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for about $2.3 billion to form NewPage Corporation. NewPage originally constituted five pulp and paper manufacturing plants in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio. In April 2006, NewPage sold their carbonless operations located in Ohio for $84 million to global specialty papermaker P. H. Glatfelter Company, based in

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. In 2007, NewPage Corporation purchased the North American assets of

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(formerly

Consolidated Papers, Inc. Consolidated Papers, Inc. (CPI) was a paper manufacturer headquartered in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. It was incorporated as the Consolidated Water Power Company on 16 July 1894. Over time it expanded to include operations in Biron, Stevens Poin ...

) which included mills in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia. On September 7, 2011, the NewPage Corporation filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization due to negative cash flow for more than a year. NewPage Corporation announced December 21, 2012, that it has successfully completed its financial restructuring and has officially emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection pursuant to its Modified Fourth Amended Chapter 11 Plan which was confirmed on December 14, 2012, by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington. In early 2015, NewPage was acquired by the

for $1.4 billion.

References

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External links

NewPage Corp. website

NewPage Digital website
Companies based in Dayton, Ohio Miamisburg, Ohio Mineral County, West Virginia Pulp and paper companies of the United States Defunct pulp and paper companies Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2011