MORNING SENTINEL • July 29, 2025
The multiyear, $500 million effort to convert and expand a paper machine at the Somerset Mill in Skowhegan is complete, Sappi North America announced Tuesday. Sappi, a Boston-headquartered subsidiary of a large international company based in South Africa, said it is now delivering customers commercial product manufactured on Paper Machine No. 2 at the Skowhegan mill on Waterville Road. Production is expected to ramp up to volume in 2026. The effort to overhaul the machine, which was announced in 2022 and dubbed Project Elevate, doubled its production capacity and made the Skowhegan facility a top production site of high-performance solid bleached sulfate paperboard, which is used for packaging across several industries.