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Sixty years ago, Georgia-Pacific opened its first containerboard plant on the site of a former sawmill in Toledo, a few miles inland from Newport on the Oregon coast.
The operation was based on a radical idea for its time: Rather than chuck the waste wood from sawmilling into a wigwam burner for incineration, it could be ground into wood chips and used to produce containerboard, the heavy brown paper that goes into making cardboard boxes.
Today wood chips are still the main source of fiber for GP’s Toledo mill, along with big bales of used cardboard known as OCC, for old corrugated containers. The raw materials come in by truck and rail from all over the West, with a daily average of 2,000 tons of wood chips and 1,300 tons of OCC going to feed the always-hungry production line.
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