Buffalo Paperboard will be running its Lockport, N.Y., mill only 10 days a month through the rest of the year.
The mill, which uses various grades of low grade recovered fiber, primarily old newspaper and old corrugated, to make paper for the wallboard industry.
According to local news reports the mill was the majority purchaser of the recovered fiber collected by the city through is curbside program.
The continued problem in the paperboard industry has hit Caraustar particularly hard. Earlier this year the company closed its Baltimore paperboard mill. Earlier this week the company announced it would idle its New Jersey paperboard mill due to contract problems the company is having with Georgia-Pacific Corp.
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