PORT ANGELES – McKinley Paper Company’s plan to open their Port Angeles mill in September of next year comes as good news to city officials, and hopefully for some of the local members of the Pulp and Paper Workers Union who lost their jobs when the mill shut down in the Spring of last year.

Union President Greg Pallesen says he expects there to be something like 120 hourly jobs available once the mill retools for containerboard production.

Pallesen says there have been about 14 Union members working in the meantime to maintain the building.

In a statement released Monday, the Mexican-owned company said they plan to make their products out of recycled cardboard, with the aim of reducing energy and water consumption and landfill disposal in the region, as well as to become a net capturer of CO2.