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Kinleith pulp and paper mill

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Kinleith pulp and paper mill

The huge pulp and paper mill at Kinleith, near Tokoroa, was built by New Zealand Forest Products in the early 1950s to process wood from south Waikato exotic forests. The mill expanded considerably in the 1960s and 1970s, when the workforce reached its peak.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato region – Energy and forestry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27149/kinleith-pulp-and-paper-mill (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 1 July 2015.