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GEORGETOWN, S.C. (WCBD) – International Paper has announced the permanent closing of its Georgetown Pulp and Paper Mill, expected to impact 600-700 workers. Officials say the mill will shut down ...
In 2006, International Paper sold the plant to Verso Holdings, LLC, and 1,000 people worked in the mill at that time. In 2015, Verso laid off 300 workers. A year later, it filed for bankruptcy. In 2017, it laid off an additional 300 people and idled a machine. In April 2020, a wood pulp digester exploded, destroying the mill's pulp machines. [3]
The International Paper strike was a strike begun in 1987 by paper mill workers affiliated with the United Paperworkers' International Union (UPIU) at a number of plants in the United States owned by the International Paper (IP) company. The strike extended into 1988 and the company hired permanent replacements for workers.
The plant in Maine, known as the Androscoggin Mill, attracted national attention during this period. Ultimately, the strike ended with strikers defeated in their demands and permanently replaced with non-unionized workers. In 2006, International Paper sold this plant to Verso Holdings, LLC. In March 2023, the mill permanently closed.
The Georgetown paper mill will close by the end of the year. Here’s what we know and how it will impact Georgetown residents. The Georgetown, SC paper mill is closing.
International Paper, Memphis, Tennessee [322] Albany Paper Mill, Albany, Oregon (Closed in 2009, demolished in 2012) [323] [324] [325] Augusta Paper Mill, Augusta, Georgia [326] Bogalusa Paper Mill, Bogalusa, Louisiana Cedar Rapids Paper Mill, Cedar Rapids, Iowa [327] Courtland Paper Mill, Courtland, Alabama (Closing completely in 2014) [328] [329]
The paper mill was most profitable in the 1960s, with products being directly marketed to company-owned box plants. However, an extended period of down time (9-months) due to market conditions in 1996 signaled the beginning of the end for the mill. After nearly sixty years, St. Joe decided to get out of the paper business.
Champion International was a large paper and wood products producer based since 1980 in Stamford, Connecticut. [1] It was acquired by International Paper in 2000.. From 1893 it had been based in Hamilton, Ohio, expanding to plants in Texas and Western North Carolina by the 1930s.