Our mill
Located on the banks of the St Louis River, the Cloquet Mill has two paper machines and an offline coater, producing premium coated paper for annual reports, advertising brochures and fine art books.
| Products produced |
Capacity paper
(tpa*) |
Capacity pulp
(tpa) |
| Bleached chemical pulp for own consumption and market pulp |
|
410,000 |
| Coated woodfree graphic paper |
330,000 |
|
| Paper machine |
Capacity
(tpa) |
Width
(mm) |
| PM4 |
150,000 |
5,486 |
| PM12 |
180,000 |
5,486 | |
* Ton(s): Term used on this website to denote a metric ton of 1,000kg.
tpa: Abbreviation used on this website to denote metric tons per annum.
Our products
Some of the most requested coated fine papers originate at the Cloquet Mill, including Flo, Lustro Offset Environmental, McCoy, Opus and Somerset.
Our milestones
| 2005 |
- Energy saving improvements enable mill to win local, state and national environmental awards.
|
| 2002 |
- Sappi acquires the mill from the Potlatch Corporation.
|
| 2000 |
- New pulp mill is started up at a total cost of US$525 million, more than doubling the capacity of the previous operation while vastly improving the environmental performance of the mill.
|
| 1989 |
- Newest coater is installed.
|
| 1988 |
- Newest paper machine is installed.
|
1960s
|
- Begin producing high-grade coated stock to meet the growing need for paper suited to offset lithographic printing processes.
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| 1915 |
- Chemical pulping is added to the facilities.
|
| 1898 |
- The mill is built and originally produces newsprint from groundwood pulp.
| |
Our environment
The Cloquet Mill continues to take steps to preserve the environment. The new and expanded pulp mill has helped significantly to improve air quality around the mill.
New cooking and bleaching technologies have eliminated the need to use elemental chlorine in the manufacturing process. As a result, more than 12 million pounds of chlorine per year have been eliminated from the bleaching process. In addition, chlorinated materials in the mill's effluent have been reduced by 70%.
The mill complies with the US Environmental Protection Agency's Cluster Rules; the air and water regulatory standards established specifically for the US pulp and paper industry.
Our community
Employees at Cloquet Mill are committed to giving back to their local communities. They regularly volunteer their time with local organizations and make financial contributions to a range of community groups. A mill-based community relations committee co-ordinates local community outreach efforts to non-profit groups such as the United Way, the local Fire and Police departments and over 20 local school programs.
Contact details
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