MAINE MONITOR • November 7, 2025
Woodland Pulp announced to its employees on Tuesday that the company will pause manufacturing at its Baileyville pulp mill and wood chip plant from late November to mid-December. During that month-long hiatus, the company will temporarily lay off 144 employees at both facilities, said Woodland Pulp spokesperson Scott Beal. Woodland Pulp is Washington County’s largest employer, and the layoffs will apply to about one third of the mill workforce. Beal attributed the “extended downtime” to declining prices in the global pulp market. “The tariffs, the uncertainty with markets, pullback on consumption, all of these factors are impacting all of the facilities, including Woodland right now. It’s all kind of a perfect storm,” said Dana Doran, executive director of the industry group Professional Logging Contractors of the Northeast. Woodland Pulp is one of Maine’s last major mills.