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Verso Paper (VRS) Plans Temp. Production Idle at Androscoggin Mill; Notes Challenging Market Conditions

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Verso Announces Plans to Temporarily Idle 200,000 Tons of Annual Production Capacity at its Androscoggin Mill in Maine

November 1, 2016 9:00 AM EDT

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Verso Corporation (NYSE: VRS) today announced plans to temporarily idle the No. 3 paper machine at its Androscoggin Mill in Jay, Maine, reducing annual coated paper production capacity by approximately 200,000 tons.  Verso intends to implement this capacity reduction beginning in the first quarter of 2017. The mill also will idle a digester and recovery boiler that support the No. 3 paper machine. Most products currently produced on the No. 3 paper machine will be transitioned to other machines in Verso's highly flexible manufacturing system with no expected disruption to... More