re: Paper Mill in Port Hudson partially shutting down

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Who is the plant manager?

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Kevin Hill was the manager that just retired.

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Thanks I'm out in the first wave in March Being told I will be offered a position at another mill if I want it

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Someone has already given you concrete info and dates?

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Kevin Hill was the manager that just retired.

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Kelvin Down Hill.

I was actually looking forward to working with the new mill manager, Mark Martin. He is a good leader
I was following your advice Mikie, been looking to get out since last summer, this just makes it more urgent

If someone there is willing to move to Tennessee, Ohio, Arizona, Kentucky, or Mississippi my nephew works for this family owned company that treats their employees well. He said if it makes it to the external website no one has applied for it internally which is a good sign for applicants.

They have a few consumer products mfg plants in the US and someone may find a job that fits their skills.

This is their career page. Jobs will vary from engineering, mfg, mgmt, and IT depending on openings. They mostly make products from steel and one of the largest steel stampers in the world.

Nephew former Georgia Pacific Building material Rep laid off 2004 works for them now loves it.

My cousin retired from them and he enjoyed his time there.

It not all rainbow and sunshine. They treat their employees well. They had good and bad years along some layoffs. The company tries not to overhire to reduce layoffs. They treat their people good and you will see a lot of people like working for them have a good quality of life. You have a lot of women work on the line in plants that work part time to have off in the summer with their kids. They have a lot of college kids working for them and only require they find someone to split schedules if they work part time. They try to work with their employees to keep good talent which is hard.

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So the announcement was that this was market related...

Did they recently lose any big contracts?

As of the last year, they were making all the GP branded products (Spectrum, angel soft, brawny etc) plus Kirkland (Costco) and Members Mark (Sams) printer paper, toilet paper and paper towels among many other brand names.... something had to have happened recently

They were still making a shite load of office/ fine paper products

H2S

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something had to have happened recently

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My guess is they’re tired of dealing with the union. Shut it down and run the union off then reopen as a non union plant in a couple, three years. Sucks, but sometimes it’s the only way.

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I've never understood exactly what makes a paper mill smell so terribly. Nothing about trees and paper says "smells like skunk that's been dead a month's a-hole" but somehow they produce that smell en masse

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Some of the residuals combined with the waste products from the wood digestion process to make pulp are what stink so bad. There's a lot of different mercaptans and foul condensates in those process streams after the wood chips are digested.