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Georgia-Pacific Announces Major Investment
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Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30 November 2017 -- (News release) -- Georgia-Pacific announced that it is making significant investments, which could total more than $50 million, in converting assets to support its Compact professional toilet paper business.

The company said that converting equipment is currently being installed at its Green Bay, Wisc., Broadway mill and should be at full production in the 2Q 2018. In addition, the company has approved funding and final engineering for converting equipment at its Savannah River Mill in Rincon, Ga., which should be operational in the 1Q 2019. These investments follow the recent start-up of Compact® converting equipment at the Muskogee, Okla., mill in 2017.

Based in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world's leading makers of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals.

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