Caraustar announced the permanent closure of its Richmond Paperboard mill in Richmond, Virginia, effective December 11, 2008. The Richmond mill is an uncoated recycled boxboard (URB) manufacturing facility with annual capacity of 49000 tons.
The company also announced that effective December 19, 2008 it will idle the Carolina Paperboard mill in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Carolina mill is a URB manufacturing facility with annual capacity of 62000 tons. The company will continue to monitor its product demand and expects to determine by the end of the first quarter 2009 when it will restart URB production at the Carolina mill.
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