 The commission was set to consider the mill's location, the amount of lumber it needed, processing techniques as well and financing and ownership issues.A pulp mill was considered, based on recently abandoned proposals for one in Kirkenes, a site found to be too remote.The commission recommended unanimously on 27 January 1961 that the mill be organized as a cooperative, that it receive one paper machine with an annual output of 100,000 tonnes, a mechanical pulp mill with an annual production of 80,000 tonnes and 20,000 tonnes of pulp produced through the sulfite process.