Domtar Names New Mill Manager To Oversee Completion Of Plant’s Conversion

Kingsport’s idled Domtar paper mill has named Troy Wilson as the plant’s new mill manager. Wilson replaces Marty Barfield who recently passed away. Wilson is now overseeing the mills repurposing of the plant to produce linerboard after laying off more than 300 employees in October. Domtar is continuing the conversion of the plant and expects that process to take 24 to thirty months and hope to complete work by the first quarter of 2023. It’s not known how many of those layed off workers will be rehired following the conversion of the plant.