Simpson Tacoma Kraft Paper Mill (Tacoma, Washington)

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The Simpson Tacoma Kraft Company's Tacoma pulp and paper mill is the last major wood-processing facility in Tacoma. It was the main source of the sulfuric stench that earned Tacoma the moniker "Tacoma Aroma." The smell is mostly gone now due to installation of pollution filters, but the aroma can still be smelled throughout the city during temperature inversions.

The mill specializes in white top linerboard which is primarily used as the clean printable outer surface of currugated boxes. The mill also produces natural linerboard including pizza boxes, bleached and natural Kraft paper, and unbleached Kraft market pulp.
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Coordinates:   47°15'53"N   122°25'37"W

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  • yea i totally agree with both comments about the aroma...very bad, but yea people who live in Tacoma must be oblivious to it, because one time i went to downtown, cuz i wanted sumthin to do, but when i smelled that, i asked everyone if they had smelled the same thing, and no one said anything...i guess people from Tacoma are just retarded er sumthin.
  • You should have grown up in Everett in the 1960s--there were 3 pulp mills and the aroma there was incredible!
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