04/28/16   Good News Bad News

Yesterday there was good news for Southern Arkansas, an announcement by Governor Asa Huthinson of the construction of a 1 billion dollar bio-products mill to be built at Arkadelphia by Sun Paper.

Today we report that Georgia-Pacific officials have announced that the Georgia Pacific plywood mill in Crossett is being closed permanently. April 7, the company announced that the Crossett plywood facility and another in Talladega, Alabama were both being closed permanently.

Georgia-Pacific Crossett public affairs manager, Jennifer King said equipment at the Crossett plywood mill would be sold or scrapped, adding that the buildings would be removed for safety reasons. Although operations at the Crossett plywood mill ceased in September, 2011, the facilities are currently being used for storage of plywood and products from other mills.

King said it would probably take two to three months to remove all stored material and several months to complete the removal of the equipment and buildings.