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Kingsport Mill’s Construction Workforce

Kingsport Mill’s Construction Workforce

Click here to watch a video recognizing the Kingsport Mill’s construction workforce, which recently surpassed 2.5 million hours without a loss time incident. This impressive safety streak started when the conversion project began in the fall of 2020. Project Smoky is one of the largest and statistically safest projects in Domtar’s history. 

The Kingsport Mill resumed operations in January 2023. 

Kingsport Mill Observes One Million Hour Mark

Kingsport Mill Observes One Million Hour Mark

The Kingsport Mill is celebrating more than one million hours worked by our onsite construction partners without a lost time incident, a significant milestone in a conversion process that involves 40 different contract companies and more than 1,000 individual...

Enthusiastic Employees Return to Work in Kingsport

Enthusiastic Employees Return to Work in Kingsport

2022 has brought new life to our Kingsport Mill. In addition to 31,500 tons of material from the mill’s original structures being recycled to form the foundation for the mill’s future, employees who once made paper there are set to return to work as new buildings rise in the place where the others stood for more than a century.

Construction isn’t the only new life being breathed into the mill. The site is buzzing again as employees prepare to return to work and get accustomed to the mill’s new layout, recycled containerboard product and processes.

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Project Smoky October 2021 Update

Project Smoky October 2021 Update

Click here to watch a video showing recent construction progress at the Kingsport Mill. Video courtesy of MAC Solutions, in collaboration with Wicked Mountain Films.…

Project Smoky Video

Project Smoky Video

Click here to watch a video showing recent construction progress onsite at the Kingsport Mill courtesy of MAC Solutions in collaboration with Wicked Mountain Films.