Veldman brothers, BMI Group financing restart of Michigan paper mill

By Ian Ross
Northern Ontario Business
June 14, 2025
Category: Business & Politics
Region: United States, US East

The impact of the pandemic and the boom in takeout food delivery has spurred the restart of a Port Huron, Mich., paper mill owned by the Veldman brothers’ BMI Group. Four years after being mothballed, the former Domtar mill in the Michigan border town is coming back to life thanks to a resurgence in the sustainable, lightweight specialty papers used in fast-food restaurant packaging, candy wrappers, medical table covers, tissue overwraps, and other sustainable uses. Under the new banner of the Legacy Paper Group, the company is aiming for an August production start. The mill’s cornerstone Paper Machine No. 8 will be restarted, putting out 30,000 tons annually of production, according to Mark Bessette, managing director of Legacy Paper Group. …The three Veldman brothers, owners of a former forest mill sites in Fort Frances, Red Rock, Iroquois Falls and lately Espanola, have made an undisclosed “seven-figure” investment in Port Huron, according to Bessette.

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