The Forestry Forum

Demolition Plus came into the auto parts store needing some oil for a compressor. I've been seeing the trucks around and asked what they do.
They are tearing down the IP or Verso paper mill in Jay. If they reach their goal in 10 months, then they will have 2 more years to keep tearing it down.

I thought there was a plan to make some sort of fiber/chip board? Did that fall through?

TimberHP , Madison, Maine (May, 2024) (On the site of the former Madison Paper Mill purchased in 2019)
Wood based insulation "Timber-Batt"
(TimberHP to work with Saint Gobain)
https://youtu.be/vse9aowwox8?si=r3JHqdBCW2eiusqf

Lincoln Paper Mill Site, Maine might become big battery site. 
(8th August, 2024)
Former Maine paper mill to become site of world's largest multi-day energy storage facility (85 Mwh Iron Air battery able to last up to 4 days)
https://youtu.be/oV2xCf_DVAs?si=XQcjLooLSw9Lxiir

The former paper mill site in Jay aims to re-open in a few years to make OSB oriented strand board (March, 2024)
Godfrey Forest Products - OSB
https://youtu.be/8tiI5Nkwk28?si=Oel26CY5aIi1MnrG

That fiber board is coming. A couple years out.
That is a big place and I suppose all the buildings is not needed. Well, I saw buildings. But I would think there is a lot of equipment that really can only be used for making paper.

Timber-batt sounds highly flammable 

Obviously the timber batts are not flammable.  The company is right there, I suggest reading about what they do as it is extremely interesting and hopeful.  Not an American idea or anything new, it was done in Europe several years ago and we are late to the game.  It's the one new thing that could act to counter the shift away from pulp.  I'm so tired about hearing another bio energy from wood product (that have never worked without massive govt subsidies).