Oregon’s once-booming paper industry is losing out to overseas mills, as more and more recycled paper is being shipped to China.
Oregon’s once-booming paper industry is losing out to overseas mills, as more and more recycled paper is being shipped to China.
Oregon’s lush forests sprouted a major pulp and paper industry, but now its future looks grim, despite this state’s trees, skilled work force and prowess at paper recycling.
A decade ago, the pulp and paper industry provided 6,300 family-wage jobs in the Portland area, according to the Oregon Employment Department. But that plummeted to 3,500 jobs by early 2011, before another 175 jobs vaporized at Blue Heron. Each of those manufacturing jobs supported additional positions for suppliers, truck drivers and other workers.
Read more at the Portland Tribune.
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