Ward quoted in BDN article on mill auction
Jake Ward, the University of Maine’s vice president of innovation and economic development, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article about an auction of items from the shuttered Lincoln Pulp and Tissue and Expera Old Town mills. The fate of UMaine’s research center for wood-based products located on the former Expera pulp mill site remains up in the air, Ward said. “They are not auctioning the building or the property itself,” he said. “We are [renting the location] month to month until they resolve selling the buildings themselves. Then, whoever eventually owns it will hopefully be our new landlord. We have good work going on and hope to continue to be there.” Researchers within UMaine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute are working on campus to create and commercialize new wood-based bioproducts that they test on a larger scale at the Technology Research Center, which opened five years ago and is located in the mill’s former finished product storage area on the southern portion of the site, according to the article.