Port Townsend
The Mill has asked to limit our group size to 10 people. The original tour is full so another date has been scheduled.
WHAT: A tour of the Port Townsend Pulp and Paper Mill, followed by a no-host brunch at a local restaurant.
WHEN: Friday, September 29th. 2023, Tour A: Full
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 Tour B: Open for reservations
9:00 am lasting about 1 hour, both tours
The Mill: Fiber from our Chapter’s logging and thinning operations is used as pulp wood and hogged fuel to make paper and run the boilers for mill steam and on-site power generation. The Mill makes 1,000 tons of Kraft pulp, paper, containerboard each day, and employs about 300 people. Dick Alescio has done consulting engineering for this mill.