Georgia-Pacific Tissue Mill in Alabama Says It Won’t Run out in Wake of Panic Buying

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According to AL.com, a Choctaw County plant is helping to meet the nation’s demand for toilet paper in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

As nervous shoppers strip grocery and variety store shelves of tissue, Georgia-Pacific’s Naheola mill is working churn it out. The Naheola mill currently employs more than 900 people. It produces retail bath tissue and paper towels, and also makes bleached paperboard used to make Georgia-Pacific’s Dixie plates, cups and bowls.

Everything from panic buying to hysteria to uncertainty about the spread of the virus are being given as reasons, but shoppers across America are buying large quantities of toilet paper. Eric Abercrombie, a spokesman for Georgia-Pacific, said the company is seeing two times the normal demand on its retail side.

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