MONMOUTH, Maine — A Maine paperboard manufacturing plant is shutting down, putting nearly two dozen employees out of work.
David Ascher, vice president of the New Jersey-based Newark Group, said the Newark Paperboard Products plant in Monmouth will close within 60 days. Ascher told the Kennebec Journal the plant’s 20 or so workers were notified Friday.
The plant, which makes recycled paper tubes, has been operating in Monmouth for about five years.
Ascher wouldn’t say why the plant was closing, but told the newspaper the company felt like it could “continue production more efficiently in another way.”
Information from: Kennebec Journal, http://www.kjonline.com/
Free Trade strikes again; 20 more jobs gone, not counting the ripple effect.
Hey LePage, where are you. The holy one, the saviour?
Run the state like a business, not a FREE FOR ALL!!!!!!!!
More jobs lost by the Penguin. Guess your sign on 95 isn’t working too well. LePage is trying to set a new record for Maine. How many jobs can be lost within a 12 month period.
How the heck did New Jersey get into this? N.J., another armhole place.
capital investment. Mainers want jobs, jobs, jobs. But we don’t seem to do much with investment and taking risks.
we did buy Dolby and loan that outfit a million. Dolby is certainly a risk. And coveting KVGAS is certainly headed that way.
that’s good to hear. sometimes I think we want milk (jobs) so badly that we forget about the cow (investment and risk).
from a small business owner who used to get a paycheck, now I am free. i’d like to see more Mainers enjoy that.
capital investment is nice, how about some Mainers getting into it for Maine.
I started my small business with $100 and my back to the wall. 3 years later I have the peace of mind to know that nobody can fire me. I have never felt more free. I would like more Mainers to see possibilities. I hate jobs. hate them. I think they turn us in to cattle.
I’m with you on that one.
J.O.B.- Just Over Broke.
It’s Maine, there are very few companies that are knocking the door down to get here.
Remove the cheap Chinese option and the illegal labor option for big corporate America and the jobs would suddenly reappear, en masse. Or we could just stand idly by while the top 1% get even more of the wealth pie.
20 more jobs lost. Many more companies closing or moving out of state, than coming in. LePage is not a very good negotiator or what? How many total jobs does that make lost, since LePage took office? His antics must have been observed by many, and they don’t want any part of it. The sign should read: CLOSED FOR BUSINESS not OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
“Continue production more efficiently in another way”. Funny how now of them have the balls to say they are packing up and moving to China. They would not want to seem like treasonous dirt bags after all.
They don’t operate or own a single plant in China, genius. Manufacturing plants using recycled materials is not a booming export industry. The Newark Group does, however, operate 16 other plants in this country which make recycled paperboard tubes, including two in Massachusetts, which will likely absorb these 20 jobs.
This is strictly a business decision that has nothing to do with LePage, Baldacci, taxes, lower wages, or business climate. It’s not a corporate takeover downsizing, either. It probably does reflect, however, the slowdown in the construction industry in Maine and the lower demand for construction tubes, locally.
Sad to see them lose the plant in Monmouth, but let’s not turn this into something that it’s not.
Okay, so this closure is likely the by product of all of the other manufacturing facilities moving to China and there is no market for their tubes. Sad to see either way. I used to haul for the Newark Group years ago and have been to their facility in Haverhill, Ma. and Jersey City, N.J. many times..
Take your cheesy jobs to China and don’t let the door hit you in the rear on the way out. Then you should move there too.
I’m surprised that they didn’t blame ” crippling government regulations and an unfair tax structure “