Nippon Dynawave, Longview

Air quality

Comment period: Jan. 10 - Feb. 3, 2020

We invite you to comment on the minor modification to the Nippon Dynawave pulp and paper mill's Air Operating Permit. Changes to the permit include:

• Changing (reclassifying) a piece of equipment that creates air pollution from emergency to non-emergency.
• Adding the requirements of Notice of Construction Order 16197.

A detailed description of changes is found in the proposed permit's support document. No increase in air pollution are allowed by this modification.

Documents are available to review online, at the Longview public library, and Ecology's Lacey office. Please read the comment period notice for more information, such as how to comment.

Published online Jan. 10, 2020

Facility information

This is a kraft pulp and paper mill and liquid packaging plant.

• With around 550 employees, the pulp and paper mill makes about 280,000 tons of bleached liquid packaging paperboard and wetlap and slush pulp each year. The liquid packaging plant has about 450 employees.

• Nippon treats its wastewater and sends it to the Columbia River. It also accepts and treats wastewater from Eagle US 2, Hasa, Specialty Minerals, Solvay Chemicals, the Columbia & Cowlitz Railway, North Pacific Paper Corporation (NORPAC), Weyerhaeuser's Lumber and Saw Mill, and the Mint Farm.

Permit information

• Air Operating Permit

  • Support document

• Wastewater permit

  • Support document
  • Support document for 2015 update to the permit
  • Support document for 2019 update to the permit​

Nippon Dynawave contacts

Company website
Facility phone: 360-425-2150
Location: 3401 Industrial Way, Longview, Wash.