MeadWestaco To Begin Planned Outage June 1   The Covington mill will begin a planned outage on June 1. This will not be a full-mill outage. It is primarily a four-day outage for No. 2 Recovery Boiler and an eight-day outage on No. 8 Paper Machine, although some work will be done in the Fiberline during this time. The boiler is planned to start-up on the morning of June 5 and there will be several hours of noise from steam blows during the startup process. No. 8 Paper Machine will start up on June 8 and there could be some noise as they go through their start-up process. While work is being performed on the boiler, other pieces of equipment will be shut down and brought back online at different intervals for maintenance. While not planned, there is a possibility that steam pop-offs could occur as equipment is shutdown and brought back online. We will work to minimize noise / odor to the community during this outage. Wood consumption will continue during the outage, but will be lower than normal. There will be a larger than normal number of contractor employees working in the mill during the outage. Please be aware of the extra traffic around the mill, the MWV parking lots, and entrance / exit gates during the outage period, especially around 5 to 6 a.m. and 5 to 6 p.m.

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