Georgia-Pacific Announces $20 Million Investment in Alcolu, South Carolina OSB Mill

Georgia-Pacific has announced that it will be investing $20 million in its Alcolu, South Carolina OSB mill. The project’s focus will be to add on a third strander onto the facility.

A strander is on the green-end of the facility, or where the logs enter the process. Once the logs are debarked, they go into the strander, which processes the wooden flakes used in the OSB process.

Construction is scheduled to begin in April 2022, with the new strander scheduled to come on-line in the 2023 Q1. When the project is complete, the mill’s annual output of OSB will be increased to approximately 150 MMSF.

In commenting on the project, Tobey Elgin, Georgia-Pacific’s Director of Operations for OSB said, “The addition of a third strander has always been in the plans for Clarendon. The site was originally designed for additional capacity, so adding this third strander will maximize the efficiency and output for the operation.”