Interfor Corporation announces it will invest eight million dollars to revive the idled Georgia Pacific sawmill near DeQuincy. The governor’s office says the project will create 170 new jobs. Southwest Louisiana Economic Development Alliance CEO George Swift says the mill was shut down last May due to the pandemic.
“A lot of the folks worked at the Georgia Pacific mill and so they can come back into the workforce so it’s a big boost for DeQuincy and for southwest Louisiana in particular,” said Swift.
Interfor plans to restart operations in the first half of 2022. Swift says Interfor is based in Canada and is one of North America’s largest lumber producers.
“Obviously Louisiana has a lot of timber industry, so they were scouting locations and identified the DeQuincy plant as one that might be available to reopen and that’s what they are going to do,” said Swift.
The mill near DeQuincy has an annual lumber production capacity of 200 million board feet. Swift says the revived plant will support significant logging and logistics activity in the region.
“Construction is booming everywhere, so there is a need for lumber products so that’s why you are seeing an investment in this industry,” said
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