Washington State Department of Ecology : Solid Waste : Industrial : Facilities - Pulp & Paper
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Grays Harbor Paper - aka: ITT Rayonier Hoquiam|
Location & History Grays Harbor Paper, L.P. is a manufacturer of uncoated paper located in Hoquiam, Washington. The mill was constructed in 1929 and started operating as Grays Harbor Pulp and Paper Company. In 1937 three Olympic peninsula mills (Port Angeles, Shelton, and Grays Harbor) joined in to form Rayonier, Inc. In 1962, Rayonier entered into a joint partnership with Hammermill Paper to create Grays Harbor Paper which operated the paper machines, while Rayonier continued operating the pulp mill portion of the facility. International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) acquired Rayonier in 1968 and International Paper (IP) purchased Hammermill in 1986. The facility was closed in November 1992, and demolition was completed on the pulp mill, chemical product lines, and vanillin extraction facilities. In December of 1993, a group of local investors restarted the paper mill portion of the plant as Grays Harbor Paper, L.P. producing fine papers from purchased bleached kraft wood pulp. Capacities: The mill currently produces regular white writing paper and post consumer waste/process chlorine free writing paper. The post consumer waste consists of Grays Harbor 100 and Grays Harbor 40. The Grays Harbor 100 is 100% post consumber process chlorine free. The Grays Harbor 40 is 40% post consumer process chlorine free. Current estimate of mill production is 425 tons/day of post consumer waste and process chlorine free paper. At present they are producing about 2.3% or 11.5 tons/day of Grays Harbor 100 and about 16% or about 80 ton/day Grays Harbor 40. Facility Site Number: 68452757 and 44124741 Location and Mailing address:
Hoquiam, WA 98550 |
Industrial Section Permits.
Air Operating permit: Olympic Regional Clean Air Agency has jurisdiction. Website, phone number: (360) 586-1044 Ecology Contact:
(360) 407-6937 |
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