ND Paper Announces Plans to Restart PM 25 at Biron Mill in Wisconsin

Feb. 27, 2025 - ND Paper announced plans to restart PM 25 at its Biron, Wisconsin, pulp and paper mill. PM 25 was idled in April of 2024.

PM 25, which underwent a grade conversion rebuild about 5 years ago, is now designed to produce recycled linerboard and corrugating medium.

ND Paper said that it expects to restart PM 25 in the second half of 2025, adding additional capacity to the Biron mill's existing recycled packaging product portfolio.

In addition, PM 26 at the mill was converted from coated publication papers to recycled packaging grades in 2022.

"With the successful conversion of PM 26 at Biron to recycled packaging and the growing demand for ND Paper's packaging products, the company is pleased to add the capacity of PM 25 back to its portfolio," ND Paper said.

ND Paper currently offers 30# - 70# Recycled Kraft, and 23# - 35# Recycled Liner and Recycled Medium. The 100% recycled furnish is supplied by a newly built 1,400-ton OCC pulping facility and a newly built 700-ton OCC pulping facility.

ND Paper is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited, the largest containerboard producer in China and Asia. ND Paper manufactures and distributes various types of pulp, paper and paper-based packaging materials. Its mills in Rumford, Maine and Biron, Wisconsin are fully-integrated paper and pulp mills with approximately 1,000 employees and the capacity to produce 900,000 metric tons of pulp and paper annually.

SOURCE: ND Paper