Covington Mill
Smurfit Westrock Covington Mill · also known as WestRock Covington, Covington Paper Mill, Covington Kraft Mill
Covington Mill is an operating kraft pulp mill in Alleghany County, United States, with a capacity of 560 000 tonnes per year.
- Company
- Smurfit Westrock
- Group
- Smurfit Westrock
- WoodComp ID
- 00360 (how IDs work)
- Country
- United States
- City
- Alleghany County
- Status
- Operating
- Capacity
- 560 000 t/y pulpPaper: not recorded (integrated papermaking; no paper capacity figure recorded)
- Type
- Kraft
- Region
- Virginia
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Covington Mill is the 7th largest pulp mill in United States of the 28 with a pulp capacity figure in WoodComp's register.
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- Nearest facilities
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Timeline
- 2025other
June: Named highest climate-warming polluter among US paper mills (2.5M tons CO2e in 2023)
Source ↗ - 2025closureunsourced
April 30: Announced as one of few mills NOT scheduled for closure; other mills (CRB St. Paul, Forney TX) announced for closure
- 2024ownership changeunsourced
WestRock merged with Smurfit Kappa to form Smurfit Westrock
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- 1899foundedunsourced
Mill founded (127 years of operation to 2026)
Sources
Data confidence: Medium (74 of 100) how this is computed
- otherchecked 2026-07-22smurfitwestrock.com
- otherchecked 2026-07-22virginiamercury.com
- otherchecked 2026-07-22paper-world.com
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- company websitechecked 2026-07-22westrock.com
- otherchecked 2026-07-23westrock.com (archived copy)
- company websitechecked 2026-07-23smurfitwestrock.com
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