Blue Heron Paper Company

Since the 1830's, there has been industrial activity on the current site of the Blue Heron Paper Mill. At times, the site has been used as a flour mill, a sawmill, a brick operation, a woolen mill and a paper mill. The Oregon City mill as it is today started in 1908 as the Hawley Pulp and Paper Mill. W.P. Hawley bought the mill and adjacent properties and eventually installed four paper machines to produce a variety of paper products including fruit wrap, bread paper, wrapping paper, toweling, bags and newsprint.Ownership transferred to the Los Angeles Times as Publishers Paper Co. and then to Jefferson Smurfit Corporation. The Oregon City mill led the Pacific Northwest into the reclamation of old newspapers with a 25 ton/day deinking plant in 1975. Today, old newspapers and magazines comprise over half our raw materials.Blue Heron Paper Co. can recycle over 600 tons per day of newsprint, magazines and other paper and make a variety of grades of newsprint, high bright specialty papers, converting and bag papers.