Millersburg, Oregon

History

Millersburg came into being in 1974, to prevent the city of Albany from attempting to extend its city limits to include where Wah Chang Corporation operated a zirconium processing plant for the United States Bureau of Mines.

Although now owned by Allegheny Technologies and until recently known as ATI Wah Chang, this processing plant is the city's largest employer.

Millersburg's infamous stench of past years, often attributed to the Wah Chang facility, was actually generated by the nearby wood products processing mill owned by Weyerhaeuser, and later International Paper. At the end of 2009 International Paper closed the mill, laying off 270 employees. On July 22, 2010, the demolition of the paper mill began with the implosion of the number 4 recovery boiler. By 2012 the remainder of the mill had been demolished.

Millersburg is home to multiple industrial sites including Ti Squared Technologies, a titanium manufacturer, and Arauco, an industrial wood plant. In 2008, Peak Sun Silicon built a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) polysilicon production facility in Millersburg. However Peak Sun Silicon's land in Oregon was foreclosed on after they were unable to repay a loan from the Oregon Department of Energy. Timberlab, a Cross-laminated timber manufacturer broke ground on a 190,000 square foot manufacturing facility in early 2025.

From the History section of Millersburg, Oregon on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.