Article: TISSUE OPERATIONS State mills may not be sold Kimberly-Clark plants' fate had been in doubt pending merger OK

Kimberly-Clark Corp. apparently will not be selling any Wisconsin tissue mills in connection with its $9.4 billion purchase of Scott Paper Co., the company said Tuesday.

That means about 1,300 employees at mills in Neenah and Marinette will remain employees of Kimberly-Clark, pending the U.S. Department of Justice's approval of the arrangement.

Kimberly-Clark announced it had agreed to sell a former Scott tissue mill in Fort Edward, N.Y., to Irving Tissue Inc., of St. John, New Brunswick. The Fort Edward mill was one of four tissue mills that Kimberly-Clark said in December could be sold to gain Justice Department approval of the Scott purchase.

The three other mills were ...

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