International Falls Paper Plant, Minnesota

International Falls is a border town, and a company town with paper plants on both sides of the river. The plant on the Canadian side, owned by the Resolute Forest Products, was closed in 2014. The plant on the US side has downsized, but is still operating. The two plants were originally one company, the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company (Mando), with pulp and raw processing on the Canadian side, and paper production on the US side. This saved on the duties of importing finished paper into the US, the larger market for the product.  In the 1960s, the US plant was purchased by Boise Cascade, and became one of their flagship locations, making white office paper distributed nationally for fifty years. In 2013 the Packaging Corporation of America bought the pulp and paper division of Boise Cascade (Boise Cascade is still active in wood products, but not paper), and now the plant makes paper for packaging.