The New-Indy Catawba mill site originally opened in 1959 and became a New-Indy subsidiary in 2019. It is a world-class paper manufacturing mill located on the Catawba River that makes lightweight linerboard that is important for packaging.

Employee Event

New-Indy Employees Attend Leadership Workshop

On Friday January 13, New-Indy Catawba hosted a leadership workshop for salaried employees. The all-day event featured a review of New-Indy’s 2022 performance, a look ahead to 2023, and a demonstration of techniques for developing a team – all with an eye toward having another successful year. The word diagram below depicts why New-Indy Catawba employees stay with the company for so long – an average of 18 years. At a time of record turnover in the U.S. businesses, New-Indy put the diagram together to explain why its employee retention is so high.

The above diagram explains in graphic form why New-Indy Catawba employees say they think average employment at the mill is an amazing 18 years.

Employee Spotlight

Rock Hill Native Chandler Thomas

Chandler Thomas, New-Indy’s process engineering group leader, attended the University of South Carolina and majored in engineering. After graduation, Chandler was offered a full-time position at a Domtar plant in Bennetsville, S.C, a paper, pulp, and packaging company.

Soon after starting work at Domtar, Chandler enrolled in graduate school to earn her MBA from Winthrop University. She was working full-time while taking online classes in her spare time. She earned her diploma last summer.

Chandler worked at Domtar for five years until she felt the pull to come home. She started at New-Indy Catawba in May 2021. Eight months later, she was promoted to her current position. She feels very fortunate that New-Indy put faith in her professional growth and appreciates the challenges each day brings. Her favorite part about working at New-Indy is interacting with fellow employees. They bring her joy and make her laugh.

In her spare time, Chandler likes to hang out with her family and to be an attentive aunt to her nieces and nephews. As a lifelong S.C. supporter, she has been attending Gamecock football and basketball games since she was a child.

A Master of Engineering and Business: New-Indy’s process engineering group leader Chandler Thomas studied civil and environmental engineering at the University of South Carolina and earned her MBA from Winthrop University.

Monitor Report

Hydrogen Sulfide Monitors Continue to Show Low Readings

Hydrogen sulfide readings at New-Indy and in the surrounding community have been zero or negligible for more than a year.

The 24-hour averages for hydrogen sulfide recorded in parts per billion (ppb) in January were miniscule – 100 times below the 14-day exposure limit (70 ppb) set by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

New-Indy Catawba has been monitoring hydrogen sulfide at the mill and in the community since May 2021. Daily reports are generated by monitors and are posted on www.newindycatawba.com.

Station ID	January 2023 Daily Average (ppb)
#1	0.70
#2	0.60
#3	0.85
Catawba HS	0.03
Tree Tops	0.07
Liberty	0.01
Riverchase	0.01
Millstone	0.00

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South Carolina state laws were amended so the Catawba mill could be built.

In June 1956, South Carolina Governor George Bell Timmerman called a special session of the South Carolina General Assembly to urge legislators to amend state laws to encourage the construction of Bowater Paper Company, the mill now called New-Indy Catawba. South Carolina’s foreign ownership laws limited foreigners such as the British-owned Bowater to holding no more than 500 acres of land. The revised law allowed foreign corporations to buy as many as 500,000 acres. Construction on the Catawba plant began soon after and was completed in 1959.

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