American Eagle Soars

TYRONE, PA—The paper industry may be contracting, but don't tell that to American Eagle Paper Mills.

A former member of the then-Westvaco family of paper mills, the Tyrone, PA-based facility was shut down in 2001, just as Westvaco was merging with Mead. But backed by the Team 10 ownership group and a $3 million grant from the state of Pennsylvania, the mill reopened last September with 170 employees and an annual goal of producing 90,000 tons of commercial offset, envelope and BRC stock.