Amicus Seeks to Keep UK Paper Mill Open

ICEM UK affiliate Amicus is in a 90-day consultation period with papermaker ArjoWiggins in efforts to save 150 jobs at the Corpach Mill, near Fort William in Scotland. The company announced closure of the carbonless paper mill last month, but Amicus and two other unions representing workers at the mill are intent to find a buyer for the 39-year-old mill. In 2003, the British government gave the company a £5 million grant for construction of a new biomass boiler system for energy generation, but ArjoWiggins did not go ahead with the project.