Business & Development

Approximately 150 workers are affected by the decision of Domtar Corporation to permanently close down its paper machine and supporting sheeter in Baileyville. The company is continuing to operate its pulp mill, which employs 300 workers.

A one-third scale model of a tidal turbine generator will be placed in the waters off Clark's Ledge, Eastport, in mid-November for a month of feasibility testing. The installation of the test unit is the first of two steps before a commercial project can be built.

A proposal by a land-based salmon farming company to lease part of the property at the former Mearl Corporation site at Broad Cove in Eastport has been made to the Eastport Port Authority.

A new manufacturing business, ICS of Maine, will open by the end of the year in the Baileyville Industrial Park. Owned by Insulated Component Structures Inc.

Five Washington County business people responded to a recent report and action plan on Maine's economy, which argues for cutting government spending while investing in an innovation-based economy, by stating that they are not waiting for the state or "a white knight" to come in and help.

Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLC, which is planning to expand its natural gas pipeline in Maine to allow for additional volume from the Saint John liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, has filed a response to Quoddy Bay LNG's March 23 request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).