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Energy costs kill off Monmouthshire paper mill

16th March 2006, Page 6
16th March 2006
Page 6
Page 6, 16th March 2006 — Energy costs kill off Monmouthshire paper mill
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.1.HE. CLOSURE of aWelsh paper mill is sending shock waves through the timber haulage sector.

St Regis will close its Sud brook Mill in Monmouthshire in May; its parent group says annual energy costs have doubled in three years. Hauliers had no warning that Sudbrook was in danger.

Owner-driver Norman Stothard spent £20,000 on a tractor unit to service the operation: "A fortnight after buying it, I found out that staff had been given 90 days' notice about the closure."

• Rising energy costs are also affecting output from other timber users. Kronospan,a chipboard and

MDF maker, closed its Chirk plant for three days in December but director Mike McKenna says further cutbacks are not planned: "Business is tough... but we are committed to the operation."


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