News Coverage
23
MAY
2013
New Solid Fuel could offer an effective carbon neutral option for the future
Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production
A slow revolution in the use of biomass for firing or co-firing power generation is picking up pace this year as a number of competing technologies for the production of 'biocoal' move more convincingly towards full commercialisation.
1
APR
2013
Torrefied Pellet Pursuit
Pellet Mill Quarterly
In the U.S., commercial supplies of torrefied wood pellets are difficult to secure. What's holding up market development?
1
APR
2013
Making Renewable Profitable
Construction Today
Cate Street Capital is turning green into gold by producing renewable power in New Hampshire and renewable fuel in Maine.
25
FEB
2013
Millinocket Great Northern Paper buildings to be torn down to make way for industrial park
Bangor Daily News
Most of the old Great Northern Paper Co.’s buildings will be razed as the new GNP and its parent company prep the Katahdin Avenue mill site for an industrial park, a company spokesman said Saturday.
24
FEB
2013
Mill revival gives Maine community new hope
Boston Globe
East Millinocket is known as “the town that paper made.” It was born with the mill, lived for generations because of it and then withered as the plant slowly downsized and, in 2010, choked to a halt.
22
FEB
2013
E Maine city to get wood pellet facility
MSN Money - AP
Maine's easternmost city is getting a manufacturing plant for a special type of wood pellet that will be shipped overseas as an alternative, cleaner-burning fuel for coal-fired power plants.
22
FEB
2013
Eastport to Get $120M Wood Pellet Plant, With Up to 75 New Jobs
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
A bit of good news for the economy of Downeast Maine: A manufacturer of torrefied wood pellets says its new Eastport production plant could end up employing as many as 75 people. Thermogen Industries, a subsidiary of New Hampshire-based Cate Street Capital, announced plans this morning to build the $120 million facility next to the city's port.
18
FEB
2013
Great Northern Paper Co CEO reflects on 1st year turnaround
MaineBiz
Last month, Great Northern Paper Co. CEO Richard Cyr turned over the day-to-day running of the East Millinocket mill to Ned Dwyer, a 26-year paper industry veteran who assumes the title of president.
Besides staying on as Great Northern's CEO, Cyr will continue as CEO of Thermogen Industries, an affiliated Cate Street Capital company that will be opening the first of five planned "bio-coal" manufacturing plants in Millinocket later this year.
6
FEB
2013
North Country advocate joins Cate Street Capital
Berlin Reporter
Former Department of Resources and Economic Development (DRED) Commissioner George Bald joined the management ranks of Cate Street Capital (CSC) on Friday, Feb. 1.
31
OCT
2012
350-plus workers are on-site at Burgess BioPower plant
Berlin Reporter
Work around the old boiler at the former Burgess Pulp Mill site, around which Cate Street Capital’s up-to-75- megawatt Burgess BioPower plant is being constructed, has exceeded the halfway mark, Cate Street senior project analyst Alex Ritchie said last week.
25
OCT
2012
Great Northern Paper Celebrates One Year Anniversary
WABI-TV 5
Great Northern Paper celebrated its one year anniversary at the East Millinocket Mill on Oct. 25.
25
OCT
2012
New Great Northern Paper celebrates first anniversary - plans for future
Bangor Daily News
Even as they were celebrating their company’s first year of operations on Thursday, the leaders of the new Great Northern Paper Co. planned for the second, and a few after that, too.
25
OCT
2012
Great Northern Paper One Year Anniversary
WLBZ 2 TV - WCSCH 6 TV
Great Northern Paper celebrated its one year anniversary at the East Millinocket Mill on Oct. 25.
15
OCT
2012
John Hallé banks on new industries in Maine wood basket
MaineBiz
Cate Street Capital CEO John Hallé was recently named to MaineBiz's 2012 Next List. The list of 10 is comprised of entrepreneurs and innovators who are shaping Maine's economy.
27
SEP
2012
Fifty Shades of Maine
NBC Rock Center with Brian Williams
The popularity of the Fifty Shades of Grey novels has helped revive East Millinocket, Maine. The city, once dubbed the town that paper made, had fallen on hard times. A few months after reopening its largest paper mill, Random House enlisted the mill to print the trilogy to keep up with growing demand. Rock Center’s Harry Smith reports.
24
SEP
2012
Fifty Shades of Grey brings economic boom to Maine town
NBC Rock Center with Brian Williams
East Millinocket, Maine, once dubbed the town that paper made, has struggled since its big paper mill closed nearly two years ago, but recently the town received an unlikely boost from the Fifty Shades of Grey craze.
19
SEP
2012
Up to 15 construction workers sought for Millinocket torrefied wood project
Bangor Daily News
Thermogen Industries LLC and The Conti Group, a contractor building the foundation of the structure that will house the $48 million machine, are advertising locally to hire 10 to 15 workers, said Scott Tranchemontagne, a spokesman for Cate Street Capital, Thermogen’s parent company.
29
AUG
2012
From Paper To Power
Biomass Magazine
The closure of the last paper mill in Berlin, N.H., was devastating, but its ongoing transformation into a biomass power plant is revitalizing the region.
12
AUG
2012
NH town still reeling but on cusp of a comeback
Bloomberg Business Week - AP News
This once-thriving mill city appears on the cusp of crawling out of its steep economic woes, with residents and officials pinning hope on the federal prison's annual $20 million payroll and a biomass plant, Burgess BioPower, that promises to resuscitate the logging industry when it opens late next year.
6
AUG
2012
Papermakers Back to Work in East Millinocket
WABI TV 5
Papermakers are heading back to work in East Millinocket. Nearly 40 jobs are available at the mill.
3
AUG
2012
Northern Maine mill to start 2nd paper machine
Boston.com
Great Northern Paper Co. plans to start up a second paper machine at its East Millinocket mill, restoring 37 jobs there.
2
AUG
2012
East Millinocket paper mill plans to hire 37 more workers, start up second papermaking machine
Bangor Daily News
Less than a year after its revival, the Great Northern Paper Co. plans to get a second paper machine up and running in East Millinocket, creating an additional 37 jobs, according to the company’s president and CEO.
2
AUG
2012
Cate Street Capital looks to add jobs at East Millinocket mill
WCSH 6 TV
Roughly one year after buying the East Millinocket paper mill, a New Hampshire based company is now looking to add jobs there.
2
AUG
2012
Big Business for East Millinocket Paper Mill
WVII ABC 7
"This book is a great example of how our paper can perform."
1
AUG
2012
Maine paper company cashing in on 50 Shades of Grey popularity
WGME TV 13
Great Northern Paper in East Millinocket is cashing in on the wild popularity of the steamy romance novel series "50 Shades of Grey". Random House Publishing has asked the paper mill to produce 3,000 tons of paper for copies of the book.
1
AUG
2012
Fifty Shades paper made in Maine
New England Cable News (NECN)
The hit erotic series "Fifty Shades of Grey" is more like 50 shades of green in a town in Maine.
31
JUL
2012
Water Demands Spark Improved Technology For Fracing
Hart's E&P
New Hampshire-based Cate Street Capital (CSC) is banking hard on water in the oil field as it just announced plans to invest another US $40 million into one of its subsidiaries, Clean Runner, a water treatment technology company. This is on top of a $20 million initial investment.
20
JUL
2012
Fergus Cullen - Don't DRED their help in job creation
Union Leader
Help wanted: Seeking Boston-area representative to poach Route 128 tech companies. Persuade them to relocate or expand in our area instead of Boston. For more information, contact any candidate running for governor of New Hampshire.
18
JUL
2012
Plan for torrefied wood plant approved in Millinocket
WLBZ-2
Leaders in Millinocket have given their knod for a project that could bring new life to the town's closed paper mill.
10
JUL
2012
In Berlin, biopower plant adds up to jobs
Union Leader
On Friday, Lynch was told that the project was on time, on target, and on budget. It is expected to start producing electricity in the fall of 2013.
With eight contractors working on the various parts of the $275 million project, employment at the site is up to 225 workers, including management. That number, according to site manager Carl Belanger, should get up to 300 in August.
11
JUN
2012
Investment program seeks rural jobs
MaineBiz
Maine Senate Republicans recently announced an increase in the cap to tax credits for certain rural development projects in the state's new $250 million New Markets Capital Investment Program. The program, which could cost taxpayers $95.7 million, was included in last year's budget and modified in this year's supplemental budget. It mirrors the federal New Markets Tax Credit program, but is funded through the state budget.
17
MAY
2012
Cate Street to benefit from tax credit boost
MaineBiz
A plan to manufacture a new type of wood-derived fuel in Millinocket got a boost with Gov. Paul LePage's signing of the supplemental budget. The budget increases the amount of tax credits Cate Street Capital can receive for the energy project to $40 million.
11
MAY
2012
Union says it is hiring local for biomass project
Berlin Daily Sun
Berlin Mayor Paul Grenier said he was pleased to see Local 7 follow through on the promise it made to the local communities.
10
MAY
2012
Cate Street looks to get permits for new plant in Millinocket
WLBZ-TV
Officials with Cate Street Capital say that they are now beginning steps to pursue their new plan for the Millinocket paper mill.
4
MAY
2012
Union Leader - Progress made at new Berlin biomass power plant
Union Leader
Burgess BioPower biomass plant construction is ramping up as the summer nears.
16
APR
2012
GNP receives FSC certification
Pulp and Paper News
Great Northern Paper Company, LLC, (GNP) announced that it received a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification.
1
MAR
2012
Torrefied Wood
Bangor Metro
Thermogen Industries is breathing new life into the old paper mills in the Katahdin Region, creating an alternative energy source that will benefit the economy and environment.
2
DEC
2011
Cate Street buys biocoal technology rights for $20M
Bangor Daily News
In a huge step toward adding the production of treated wood at its Katahdin Avenue paper mill and creating several hundred jobs, Cate Street Capital has purchased for more than $20 million the North American rights to the technology to manufacture biocoal, officials said Thursday.
1
DEC
2011
Scottish company in ‘biocoal’ breakthrough
Financial Times
Rotawave Biocoal has signed a $20m (£12.7m) deal with Cate Street Capital, a US investment company, to manufacture the technology exclusively and market it in North America and Canada.
24
NOV
2011
Mill's reopening stokes Maine towns' hopes
Washington Examiner
Idled for months, one of the two Great Northern Paper mills is once again sending puffs of steam from its smokestacks, signaling it's back in operation.
16
NOV
2011
The Power to Persevere - How One City Is Rebuilding Itself Through Biomass
Renewable Energy World
Cate Street Capital’s $275 million project (in Berlin, New Hampshire) will bring to the region an estimated $40 million in annual wages, fuel procurement and purchased goods.
25
OCT
2011
Maine paper workers return to work at mills
BusinessWeek
About 250 workers have resumed making paper at Great Northern Paper Co.'s East Millinocket mill during the past few weeks. The sale of the long-shuttered Katahdin paper mills in Millinocket and East Millinocket to Cate Street Capital of Portsmouth, N.H., was completed in late September.
10
OCT
2011
Cate Street Capital commences work on 75MW biomass power plant in US
World Construction Network
The company will build the power plant on the Androscoggin River, on the former site of the Fraser Papers pulp mill.
15
SEP
2011
NH investor group poised to buy closed Maine mills
Associated Press
A New Hampshire-based investment group is ready to reopen a pair of idled paper mills and revive the Great Northern Paper Co. name that the mills held during their glory days, officials said Thursday.
6
SEP
2011