Sappi’s Cloquet mill to make cellulose fibre for textiles

The 113-year-old mill in Cloquet city in Carlton County, Minnesota, will soon be making cellulose fibre that can then be used to make textiles, clothing and baby wipes.

Sappi Fine Paper, the company that currently makes pulp for use in paper mills at the Cloquet mill, has received approval from Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for construction of its US$ 170 million project for converting wood pulp to chemical cellulose.

The project would be first of its kind in Minnesota and construction work for the same is likely to begin next month.

As part of the project, Sappi Fine would fully convert its existing mill from making pulp for paper to producing dissolved pulp or chemical cellulose, which is expected to be exported to textile manufacturing units in India, Indonesia and China by May next year.

The project would be carried out on an extremely fast track, according to Rick Dwyer, Managing Director of the Cloquet mill.

On completion of the project, he said, the Cloquet mill would be able to convert wood to a purer form of dissolved pulp that can be further processed into viscose staple fibre (vsf) to make rayon textiles.


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