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Verso Paper to Add Jobs at Mill in Jay

Susan Sharon
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Maine Public
The Verso Paper mill in Jay 2015

Verso Thursday announced that it plans to upgrade and restart the No.3 paper machine at the Androscoggin Mill in Jay later this year, creating around 120 new full-time jobs.

Verso spokesperson Kathi Rowzie says the machine will be used to manufacture a variety of packaging products rather than the graphic papers formerly produced on the machine.

“We expect the machines to restart in the third quarter of this year,” says Rowzie.

Total cost for the project is $17 Million. $4 Million of that is state money awarded by the Maine Technology Institute through a challenge grant.

Rowzie says people interested in applying for one of the new jobs should be on the lookout for ads in local newspapers and other media in the coming weeks.

Currently, Verso employs around 400 people in Jay.

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.