We employ more than 55,000 people at 500-plus facilities in North America. The Corporation also owns or controls more than 5.8 million acres of timber and timberlands in the United States and Canada. The Corporation produces Southern softwood, Southern hardwood and Northern hardwood pulps for use in the manufacture of many paper grades. Georgia-Pacific also is a major supplier of fluff pulp and other specialty pulps.
Fluff pulp is used primarily in the manufacture of disposable diapers and other sanitary items.
The Corporation exports approximately 57 percent of its market pulp, primarily to Europe, Asia and Latin America. Georgia-Pacific can produce 400,000 tons of bleached paperboard each year for use in frozen food containers, food service items and other products. Containerboard and Packaging Georgia-Pacific produces containerboard, corrugated containers and packaging and kraft paper . Containerboard is the brown paper from which most corrugated boxes are made. The Corporation is the second largest producer of containerboard in the United States.