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Area Development - Site Selection, Facility Planning and Workforce Development

Georgia-Pacific Expands Mill in Naheola, Alabama

05/02/2019
Georgia-Pacific plans to invest more than $120 million to add a new tissue machine and roll storage building at its mill in Choctaw County, Alabama.

The Alabama mill produces retail bath tissue and paper towels used by consumers and also makes bleached paperboard, which is sold on the market and used to make Georgia-Pacific’s Dixie plates, cups and bowls.

The new projects continue Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific’s modernization of the Naheola mill, which includes ongoing construction of a new biomass boiler and woodyard. Georgia-Pacific said the modernization projects position the mill and its overall business to be competitive in the market. The Naheola mill currently employs more than 900 people.

Georgia-Pacific said engineering and related work has begun on the project, and startup of the new machine is scheduled for 2020.

“This is one of many investments we are making at our operations across the State of Alabama, and it highlights the long history and great relationships we have in the state and in the communities where we operate,” said Christian Fischer, CEO and President of Georgia-Pacific.

In the past five years, Georgia-Pacific’s capital investment at the Naheola mill has totaled more than $500 million, and its statewide investments have totaled approximately $1.6 billion.

Across Alabama, Georgia-Pacific operates eight facilities, employs more than 2,600 employees directly and pays more than $204 million in direct wages and benefits.

“This is a great day to celebrate for our employees, the Naheola mill community and most importantly for our current and future customers,” said Kathy Walters, Group President of Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Group.

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