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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 ...
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.
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.
In 2018, Clearwater Paper sold its Ladysmith, Wisconsin, facility to Dunn Paper [18] In 2021, Clearwater Paper announced the closing of its Neenah, Wisconsin facility [19] Clearwater Paper sold its four consumer products facilities in Lewiston, Idaho, North Las Vegas, Nevada, Elwood, Illinois, and Shelby, North Carolina, to Sofidel Group in ...
Trees are unloaded by a crane at Buckeye’s Foley plant in Taylor County in 2012. The Foley Cellulose mill in Perry, Florida, announced on Sept. 18, 2023, that Georgia-Pacific plans to ...
By the mid-2000s, Bowater Inc had 10,000 employees across 12 pulp and paper mills in the United States, Canada and South Korea, along with 13 North American sawmills. On 29 January 2007, Bowater Inc and Abitibi-Consolidated announced they would be merging to create AbitibiBowater . [ 2 ]
The suit is pending in U.S. District Court for Idaho and aims to represent the pension fund and any investors who bought shares of the company’s’ common stock between July 2023 and April 2024.