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Archive Home > 2012 > December > 02 > As our society cuts paper, an industry fades

As our society cuts paper, an industry fades

• Paper mills across the U.S. aim to reinvent themselves to alleviate closures, job losses

By Adam Belz / The Bulletin
December 2, 2012

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — Something stunning happens at 60 miles per hour inside the UPM Blandin paper mill.

A thin layer of damp white pulp, flattened between forming fabric as it races through a gauntlet of heavy rollers, slips free from its forms.

It ripples like a bedsheet on a....

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