WASHINGTON COUNTY, Maine (The Maine Monitor) - Woodland Pulp announced to its employees on Tuesday that the company will pause manufacturing at its Baileyville pulp mill and wood chip plant from late November to mid-December.

During that month-long hiatus, the company will temporarily lay off 144 employees at both facilities, said Woodland Pulp spokesperson Scott Beal. Woodland Pulp is Washington County’s largest employer, and the layoffs will apply to about one third of the mill workforce.

In a Wednesday interview with The Maine Monitor , Beal attributed the “extended downtime” to declining prices in the global pulp market, not an additional 10 percent tariff that the Trump administration added to Canadian timber products in mid-October.

“I don’t think it’s done anything to help,” B

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