A Canadian company will spend $600 million to expand its tissue paper mill in Georgia, hiring 100 more workers. Irving Tissue said Thursday that it needs to expand in Macon because the mill is currently selling all the bath tissue and paper towels it can make. The privately held firm will add a third paper machine, increasing output by 50%.
MACON , Ga, — A Canadian company announced Thursday that it will spend $600 million to expand its tissue paper mill in Georgia , hiring 100 more workers.
“We’ve had tremendous success in Macon and with the plant currently sold out, this is the right plant for the expansion.” Marc Doucette, Irving’s vice president of communications, wrote in an email. The expansion will also include an automated warehouse and new converting lines to turn the tissue into finished projects. Company President Robert K. Irving said the pulp to supply the additional paper machine would come from Irving’s pulp mill in Saint John, New Brunswick, with wood supplied from timberland the company owns in New Brunswick and Maine.
The Macon plant currently produces 165,000 tons of tissue per year. Once the addition is complete, the plant will make 248,000 tons .
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