WICKLIFFE, KY May 7, 2009 – Wickliffe Paper Company LLC in Wickliffe, Kentucky, a subsidiary of NewPage Corporation, announced today a workforce reduction that will eliminate approximately 16 salaried and 36 hourly positions at the Wickliffe mill. After these reductions the mill will employ about 470 people.
The Wickliffe mill is also planning to take market-related downtime for a one week period, beginning on May 21. The entire mill will be down with a small crew of employees assigned to maintain essential operations during the outage. All other employees will have the choice of taking vacation or time off without pay during the one-week period.
