Pulp mill may find salvation in ethanol

Community leaders aren’t giving up on saving the Weyerhaeuser pulp mill in Cosmopolis from closure, but they are starting to think outside the box. For example, what if, instead of producing cellulose needed for cigarette filters, the mill was converted to create ethanol?

According to a feasibility report funded by the Governor’s Office, the process to create ethanol at the mill is not only possible, but the technology is available to make it probable.

"I’m pitching the sale of the mill every day," says Roy Nott, the president of Paneltech in Hoquiam, who led the team responsible for the feasibility report. "I have people interested in the possibility of ethanol production, but no takers yet."

By STEVEN FRIEDERICH
THE (ABERDEEN) DAILY WORLD

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