Georgia-Pacific LLC is idling operations at its McCormick lumber and Allendale OSB mills in South Carolina in about two months, affecting more than 200 employees.
As the company prepares the mills to be curtailed, production will continue for up to 60 days.
GP’s VP of building products operations said in a release that new-home construction demand had not returned to the levels of before the 2007/2008 recession, the newspaper reported.
McCormick lumber employs 98 full-time employees; Allendale employs 142.
According to GP’s release, both facilities will be maintained so they can be restarted if market conditions change.
Georgia-Pacific already announced other mill closures in 2019. Back in April 2019, Georgia-Pacific Wood Products said that it will close the Coos Bay lumber mill facility and lay off all of the site's 111 workers. The Atlanta-based pulp and paper company said Asian competition for Oregon logs made it more expensive to supply the Coos Bay mill.
Also, in February 2019, Georgia-Pacific closed its Sterling Lumber mill in Brunswick, Georgia, with loss of 120 jobs, amid difficultly in getting timber at a competitive price, drop in housing starts.
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