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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]
A turnaround (TAR) is a scheduled event wherein an entire process unit of an industrial plant, such as a refinery, petrochemical plant, power plant, or paper mill, is taken offstream for an extended period for work to be carried out.
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.
If that shutdown rate continued through this January, roughly another 150 have closed since. Which means nearly 3,000 newspapers, one-fourth of all U.S. newspapers, have closed since 2005.
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.
International Paper announced in September 2013 that it would shut down operations at its Courtland Mill facility in Courtland, Alabama, which had been one of the area's largest employers since 1970. [18] The abrupt announcement created economic and environmental concerns in Lawrence County, Alabama. Residents, current employees, and local ...
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