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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.
Hammermill Paper Company is an American paper manufacturer originally founded in 1898 as the Ernst R. Behrend Company. The company was purchased in 1986 by International Paper Company, where the namesake survived as a brand of paper. This brand was later spun off into Sylvamo Corporation when International Paper spun Sylvamo off. [1]
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 ...
In 1999, the Union Camp Corporation was acquired by International Paper. At the time it was referred to as a "merger," but was actually a takeover. Union Camp's CEO at that time was W. Craig McClelland. Earlier he had presided over the sale of Hammermill Paper Company to International Paper, in 1986, when President & CEO of that company.
And in March 2024, Tyson announced it would stop operations at its Perry, Iowa pork-packing plant. The summer closure of the Perry plant was expected to leave 1,276 workers at the city's largest ...