Somerset Mill
Sappi Somerset Mill · also known as Somerset Pulp and Paper Mill, Sappi Skowhegan
Somerset Mill is an operating kraft pulp mill in Skowhegan, United States, with a capacity of 525 000 tonnes per year.
- Company
- Sappi Limited
- Group
- Sappi
- WoodComp ID
- 00280 (how IDs work)
- Country
- United States
- City
- Skowhegan
- Status
- Operating
- Capacity
- 525 000 t/y pulpCompany figure for 2022 · verified 2026-08-20Paper: not recorded (integrated papermaking; no paper capacity figure recorded)
- Type
- Kraft
- Region
- Maine
- Website
- sappi.com
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Somerset Mill is the 9th largest pulp mill in United States of the 28 with a pulp capacity figure in WoodComp's register.
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Timeline
- 2026capacity reported
Capacity reported: 525 000 t/y (mill scope, observed 2026-07-22).
Source ↗ - 2025-07-30conversion
The rebuilt paper machine number 2 was completed on 30 July 2025 at a final cost of 500 million dollars, doubling its output to about 470,000 tonnes of solid bleached sulfate paperboard a year.
Source ↗ - 2024expansion
Completed $500M paper machine rebuild and modernization
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- 2022-11-10conversion
Sappi announced on 10 November 2022 a 418 million dollar project to convert paper machine number 2 from coated freesheet to solid bleached sulfate board, with startup planned for early 2025.
Source ↗ - 2018expansion
One of the mill's three paper machines was rebuilt for renewable paper based packaging as part of a capital project of more than 200 million dollars completed in 2018.
Source ↗ - 1994ownership change
Sappi acquired the mill in 1994 when it bought S.D. Warren Co. from Scott Paper Co.
Source ↗ - 1991expansion
Paper machine number 3 was installed at the Skowhegan mill in 1991 and later received a 13 million dollar upgrade completed in October 2012.
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Sources
Data confidence: High (100 of 100) how this is computed
- otherchecked 2026-07-22mainebiz.biz
- otherchecked 2026-07-22paperage.com
- company websitechecked 2026-07-22sappi.com
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