LINCOLN - A roll of paper taller than a man, about 7 feet across and weighing about 4 tons rolled onto a huge spool at Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC on Friday as two workers cut it from the giant machine that made it. A worker manning the control box hanging from the ceiling crane carefully walked the giant roll to another paper processing machine. Sometime soon the paper on the roll will become thousands of business envelopes.
LINCOLN - Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC faces $212,000 in fines for what a federal agency described Wednesday as nine "alleged repeat and serious" safety violations, including a September 2010 incident in which a mill employee suffered serious burns. The sizable fines proposed reflect not only the severity of the hazards found here, but also the fact that several of these conditions are similar to hazards cited and corrected following our 2008 inspection of the mill," William Coffin, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration area director for Maine, said in a statement.
LINCOLN - Without any form of due process or an explanation of the accusation's economic scope, a federal agency has issued a public notice accusing Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC of defrauding the public, mill co-owner Keith Van Scotter said Monday. A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Staff Notice of Alleged Violations released last week on FERC's website claims that FERC staff "has preliminarily determined that Lincoln Paper and Tissue, LLC (Lincoln) violated the Commission's Prohibition of Electric Energy Market Manipulation.
LINCOLN - Keith Van Scotter is an industry veteran and architect of one of the Maine paper industry's success stories. He and business partner John Wissman raised $23.7 million and bought the former Eastern Pulp and Paper Corp. in 2004, then raised $36 million to double Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC's tissue-making capacity in 2006.
LINCOLN - Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC is once again the town's top taxpayer, with a total valuation of $56.08 million, Town Manager Lisa Goodwin said. The company's valuation, Goodwin said, accounts for 17.2 percent of the town's total tax base.
LINCOLN - A sprinkler system and alert mill personnel helped douse a sawdust fire at Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC on Friday before it got out of hand, Fire Chief Phil Dawson said Monday. The fire, Dawson said, appeared to do minimal damage to the mill at 50 Katahdin Ave., but could have been much worse.
LINCOLN - The town will buy Flyaway Road and a 100-foot right of way for $27,000 as part of its plans to improve the airport, an industrial park it seeks to build near it and lands designated for light manufacturing off River Road, officials said Friday. John, Timothy and George "Barry" Edwards of Lincoln will receive $25,000 and resident Donald Enochs will be paid $2,000, respectively, for the land. It will come from a town reserve account created in 2004 with funds generated by a tax agreement with Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC when the company opened, said Ruth Birtz, the town's economic development director.
LINCOLN - An employee of Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC is in a Boston hospital after suffering burns on Thursday during the mill's annual shutdown for maintenance, co-owner Keith Van Scotter said Saturday. The employee suffered hot water and steam burns while inspecting one of the tissue machines in the plant, he said.
LINCOLN - They expect this year to be better than last, but the owners of Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC see 2010 as a moderately successful period of no major investments or substantial new hiring, they said Tuesday. The recession was very deep last year, and improvement is coming along, but it's a slow process," said Keith Van Scotter, the company's chief executive officer. "Slow is OK, so long as it is steady" and the economy doesn't swoon.
LINCOLN - A California firm has invested $35 million into Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC as part of a plan to double the plant's tissue- making capacity, create at least 35 new full-time jobs and boost the town's annual tax revenue by about $794,000. PCG Capital Partners of La Jolla, the private equity investment arm of Pacific Corporate Group LLC, announced the investment Friday. As part of the deal, the company gets a noncontrolling stake in the company and names two representatives to Lincoln Paper and Tissue's board of directors.
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