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G-P planning seven-state expansion project

MBJ Staff — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:24:54 +0000

ATLANTA — Georgia-Pacific is developing plans for potential investments, which total nearly $400 million, in its plywood and lumber operations. The company has approved funding for significant engineering and is evaluating facilities in a number of southern states, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas. The effort would increase Georgia-Pacific’s overall [...]

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Sign of better times? Sawmill expanding, adding jobs

MBJ Staff — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:32:38 +0000

GRENADA — Fly Timber is expanding its operations in Grenada. The project represents a company investment of more than $6 million and will create 30 new jobs, bringing the total number of workers employed at the Grenada facility to 80, according to a news release from the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA). Fly Timber, which has [...]

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Sawmill cutting shift; 80 employees left jobless

Associated Press — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:21:45 +0000

VICKSBURG — Anderson-Tully Company is shutting down a second shift at its Vicksburg sawmill and is laying off 80 employees by Jan. 4. The company tells the Vicksburg Post the move has been in the works for two months because of a depressed housing market. “This is a core business decision to right-size production to [...]

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Georgia Pacific closing sawmill due to lack of construction

Associated Press — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:04:19 +0000

MARION COUNTY — Georgia Pacific is closing down its Marion County sawmill, effectively putting 65 people out of work. Georgia Pacific spokeswoman Melody Ruse tells WDAM-TV employees of the sawmill, located just north of Columbia, were informed of the closure Monday. Ruse says dwindling housing starts nationwide is the reason for the closure. She says [...]

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City to recoup abandoned Georgia-Pacific plant

Associated Press — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:57:05 +0000

GLOSTER — Gloster Mayor Billy Johnson says his city will take back the old Georgia-Pacific plywood plant once workers finish cutting up and removing scrap metal. The mill closed in 2002, leaving 300 people without jobs. It reopened in 2005 and closed again in 2009, this time for good. Johnson tells the Enterprise-Journal the town [...]

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OSHA cites sawmills for multiple violations

Wally Northway — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:24:13 +0000

SILVER CREEK — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the Joe N. Miles & Sons Inc. sawmill in Silver Creek with 19 safety violations. Proposed penalties total $67,800.   OSHA began its inspection in Oct. 2010 as part of a national emphasis program on combustible dust in the workplace. The [...]

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Sawmill to close, then reopen

Associated Press — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:15:03 +0000

ACKERMAN — Packaging Corporation of America will close its Choctaw County Sawmill this year, but it won’t lie dormant for long. The company mentioned the closing during its first quarter earnings conference call. Alan Bates, director of the Choctaw County Mississippi Economic Development Foundation, says officials confirmed they were closing the Ackerman plant. However, it [...]

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