Verso takes maintenance outage at Quinnesec, MI, mill
April 19, 2010 - 12:33
QUINNESEC, MI, April 19, 2010 (Upper Michigans Source ) -Verso Paper in Quinnesec is temporarily shutting down this week. But this is turning out to be a good thing for the plant and the local economy.
The shutdown allows Verso to perform maintenance on tanks, boilers, pumps, and motors...a spring cleaning for the 24 hour, seven day a week operation.
"It's very important especially to the long term security of the mill that we continue to maintain our operations," said Verso Communications Manager Mark Pontti. "We have about a billion and a half dollar investment here and we want to make sure it continues well into the future. So this is preventative maintenance so to speak we do on an annual basis."