Paper mills deal with declining demand for product

Minneapolis Star Tribune photo by Richard Sennott

As society sheds paper, an industry shrinks

Finished paper is housed in rolls at the UPM Blandin Paper Mill in Grand Rapids, Minn. Sappi Fine Paper in Cloquet and UPM Blandin Paper Mill in Grand Rapids are both mills under pressure with the decline and dim hopes for the future of the paper industry, and the resultant decline of logging.