# NewPage > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/NewPage > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/NewPage.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewPage > Source revision: 1356959348 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Former North American paper producer}} {{Infobox company | name = NewPage | type = Information | fate = Acquired by [Verso Corporation](/source/Verso_Corporation) (2015) | key_people = Mark A. Angelson [Chairman](/source/Chairman)
George F. Martin President & [CEO](/source/Chief_Executive_Officer)
James C. Tyrone EVP, Commercial Operations and Business Development
Jay A. Epstein SVP [CFO](/source/Chief_Financial_Officer)
Daniel A. Clark SVP & [CAO](/source/Chief_Administrative_Officer)
David L. Santez SVP, General Counsel and Secretary
L. Mark Lukacs SVP, Operations | industry = [Papermaking](/source/Papermaking) | products = [Paper](/source/Paper) | founded = 2005 | hq_location = [Miamisburg, Ohio](/source/Miamisburg%2C_Ohio) | website = [http://newpagecorp.com/ www.newpagecorp.com] }} '''NewPage''' was a leading producer of printing and specialty [paper](/source/paper)s in [North America](/source/North_America) with $3.1 billion in net sales for the year ended December 31, 2012. NewPage was headquartered in [Miamisburg, Ohio](/source/Miamisburg%2C_Ohio), and owned paper mills in [Kentucky](/source/Kentucky), [Maine](/source/Maine), [Maryland](/source/Maryland), [Michigan](/source/Michigan), [Minnesota](/source/Minnesota) and [Wisconsin](/source/Wisconsin). These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 3.5 million tons of paper. NewPage's Niagara Mill, located in [Niagara, Wisconsin](/source/Niagara%2C_Wisconsin) closed in 2008, Kimberly Mill, located in [Kimberly, Wisconsin](/source/Kimberly%2C_Wisconsin) closed in 2009, Chillicothe Mill, located in [Chillicothe, Ohio](/source/Chillicothe%2C_Ohio) sold in 2006 to [Glatfelter](/source/Glatfelter) and is still operational, Port Hawkesbury Mill, located in [Point Tupper, Nova Scotia](/source/Point_Tupper%2C_Nova_Scotia) closed in 2011, re-opened in 2012 by [Stern Partners](/source/Stern_Partners) as Port Hawkesbury Paper) and Whiting Mill, located in [Whiting, Wisconsin](/source/Whiting%2C_Wisconsin) closed in 2011. In 2015, the company was acquired by the [Verso Corporation](/source/Verso_Corporation). ==History== Two of the mills can trace their roots to the West Virginia Paper Company (aka the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company and later, Westvaco) that was established in 1888 by [William Luke](/source/William_Luke) on 50 acres (202,000 m2) of land along the [Potomac River](/source/Potomac_River) in an area known as "West Piedmont" (now [Luke, Maryland](/source/Luke%2C_Maryland)). The mill in Luke remained a major economic factor in the area straddling the river into [Beryl](/source/Beryl%2C_West_Virginia) and [Piedmont](/source/Piedmont%2C_West_Virginia) in [West Virginia](/source/West_Virginia), until it was closed in 2019.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/it-was-the-backbone-of-this-town-for-131-years-now-luke-paper-mill-is-gone/2019/05/31/d4e53198-82d1-11e9-95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html |title=It was the backbone of this town for 131 years. Now Luke paper mill is gone. |date=June 1, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |first= Arelis R. |last=Hernández |access-date=September 15, 2019 }} In 2005, [MeadWestvaco](/source/MeadWestvaco)'s Printing and Writing Paper business was sold to investment firm [Cerberus Capital Management](/source/Cerberus_Capital_Management) for about $2.3 billion to form NewPage Corporation.{{cite news | title=Cerberus-Backed NewPage Files for I.P.O. | work=New York Times | date=19 April 2006 }} NewPage originally constituted five pulp and paper manufacturing plants in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio. In April 2006, NewPage sold their carbonless operations located in Ohio for $84 million to global specialty papermaker [P. H. Glatfelter Company](/source/Glatfelter), based in [York, Pennsylvania](/source/York%2C_Pennsylvania). In 2007, NewPage Corporation purchased the North American assets of [Stora Enso](/source/Stora_Enso) (formerly [Consolidated Papers, Inc.](/source/Consolidated_Papers%2C_Inc.)) which included mills in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia. On September 7, 2011, the NewPage Corporation filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization due to negative cash flow for more than a year.{{cite web |url=https://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110907-715684.html |title=NewPage's Bankruptcy Touches Off A Tussle Among Bondholders |date=September 7, 2011}} NewPage Corporation announced December 21, 2012, that it has successfully completed its financial restructuring and has officially emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection pursuant to its Modified Fourth Amended Chapter 11 Plan which was confirmed on December 14, 2012, by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington.{{cite web|title=NewPage Emerges from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection|url=http://www.newpagecorp.com/wps/portal/corporate/home/!ut/p/c5/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3ifAG8jD28TI3cLY0djA08zPx8T_5BQYwN3Q_1wkA6zeFd3Mz9fH1NDA_dQHzMDz2CDUNNA3zBDC2MTiLwBDuBooO_nkZ-bql-QnZ3m6KioCAAzqV6s/dl3/d3/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/}} In early 2015, NewPage was acquired by the [Verso Corporation](/source/Verso_Corporation) for $1.4 billion.{{cite news | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2015/01/07/verso-completes-1-4-billion-purchase-of-newpage.html | title=Verso completes $1.4 billion purchase of Newpage | work=Dayton Business Journal | date=7 January 2015 | access-date=11 May 2015 | author=Cogliano, Joe}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.newpagecorp.com NewPage Corp. website] * [http://www.newpagedigital.com NewPage Digital website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618032210/http://newpagedigital.com/ |date=2013-06-18 }} Category:Companies based in Dayton, Ohio Category:Miamisburg, Ohio Category:Mineral County, West Virginia Category:Pulp and paper companies of the United States Category:Defunct pulp and paper companies Category:Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2011 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [NewPage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewPage) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewPage?action=history)). 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