US Paper Mill Company LLC Introduced Friday as New Owner of the Chillicothe Paper Mill

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With rapid speed, the new Chillicothe Paper Mill Company LLC has been able to get the beginning phase of their operation open in the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions Paper Mill. The sale closed between the parent company US Medical Glove Company and the plant’s former owner on Tuesday. Three days later, the first of the rubber gloves to be made in the local plant were already rolling off their specially designed assembly line on a limited basis.

U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno told the audience of former Chillicothe paper mill workers and local dignitaries that the parent company US Medical Glove Company of Harvard, Illinois had sent 45 workers to the Chillicothe plant, along with hiring 60 new employees to get the warehouse section cleaned up and ready to fire up two assembly lines of glove making machines on a limited basis.

Early reporting have stated the company will eventually hire up to 500 employees, but Senator Moreno said if business sales are high enough, that could go up to 1,000. Although, he later said he is not committed that figure to the company business plan model at this time.

Moreno says the company is donating the first few hundred gloves made on the new plant assembly line to Chillicothe first responders. Moreno was also joined at the podium by Congressman David Taylor, and Ross County Commissioner David Glass, who spoke about the work behind getting a buyer for the closed mill, and also pointed the community for the potential growth of the plant, along with other industry in the area.

A big theme of the remarks stemmed around how tariffs being implemented by President Donald Trump are geared toward bringing manufacturing back to the United States. Senator Moreno pointed out that the rubber gloves that will be made in Chillicothe have been manufactured in China, and containers that will eventually made here have been coming from Mexico.

It was also stated that the eventual manufacture of paper boxes and crates for the gloves are something the company has never done themselves, until now. All of those will be made in Chillicothe.

Former US Ambassador Robin Bernstein, who has ties to the company, also was in attendance and said they are excited to be in Ohio with this new venture.

Moreno says the plant will be “ramped-up” until it can be brought up to its eventual capacity, and growth concerning jobs, will hinge upon the sales of the gloves. The Senator addressed former mill workers that could be brought on at the plant, saying wages and health plans could be equal or better than what they had with Pixelle.

Stay tuned for further details later.