[3] Four thousand feet of the site borders the Penobscot River, and the mill is located near the University of Maine.

[4][5] Workers voted to join Local 80 of the United Steelworkers union prior to the mill's 2018 change of ownership.

[6] Since 1960, when operational, the mill discharged 18 million gallons of waste water into the Penobscot River on a daily basis.

The mill was originally owned by the Penobscot Chemical Fiber Company, which merged with Diamond International in 1967 and was bought by the James River Corporation in 1983.

[4] Legal disputes around the mill's proposed sale in July 2017 saw litigation and an injunction attempt from Samuel Eakin of Relentless Capital Company, who alleged that then-owners asset-liquidation consortium MFGR breached their contract to sell the plant to him.

[9] During the takeover, Zhang Yin, founder of Nine Dragons Paper Holdings promised to operate the mill for 100 years, noting that while demand for pulp was dwindling in the United States, it was escalating in China.