Georgia-Pacific to close world's largest tissue recycling mill.(News)
Waste News, October, 2005 by Johnson, Jim
Byline: Jim Johnson Georgia-Pacific Corp. is laying off 1,100 people, including hundreds at a Green Bay, Wis., mill that bills itself as the largest tissue recycling operation in the world. Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific said 850 of the layoffs will be at several sites in North America and another 250 will occur across Europe.
Georgia-Pacific operates the Broadway and Day Street mills in Green Bay, both acquired in an $11 billion takeover of Fort James Corp. in 2000. Georgia-Pacific said the Green Bay Broadway mill will bear the brunt of a majority of the 850 North American cuts. "We've made tremendous progress in our North American consumer products business since the acquisition of Fort James,'' said Michael Burandt, president of the...
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