ROME, Ga. (Farm Monitor) — Georgia’s forest products industry continues playing a major role in supplying packaging materials used across the country.
International Paper’s Rome facility processes timber into large rolls of containerboard and linerboard used to manufacture corrugated cardboard boxes for shipping and consumer goods.
The operation also reflects how technology continues to change the forestry industry, with GIS mapping systems helping to identify harvest sites and monitor threatened and endangered species.
The Rome mill produces roughly 850,000 tons of containerboard each year, making it one of International Paper’s largest packaging operations in the Southeast.
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