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Georgia-Pacific (Gypsum)
Koch Industries subsidiary; holds the highest US market share in gypsum product manufacturing per IBISWorld. Operates 12 wallboard facilities in the US; opened a new $325M facility in Sweetwater, Texas in October 2023 — its first new gypsum plant since 2004. Both mines natural gypsum and processes FGD gypsum from US coal plants. Georgia-Pacific's gypsum operations compete directly with wallboard plants for the same gypsum feedstock that cement plants need, creating direct market competition during construction booms.
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Gypsum Wallboard & Panels
52%Paper & Tissue Products
25%Building Specialties
14%Gypsum Mining & FGD
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Did you know2024
Georgia-Pacific is the largest US producer of gypsum wallboard — but the same legal entity is also the maker of Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper, and Dixie cups, produced from its forest pulp mills. This means the company supplying the interior walls of American homes also supplies the personal hygiene paper products inside those homes. Because both businesses share the same parent (Koch Industries) and many of GP's paper mills co-locate with its building products operations in timber country, a supply shock to softwood fiber (wildfire, pine beetle, Canadian lumber tariffs) hits both the drywall sheathing supply chain and the consumer tissue supply chain simultaneously.
Georgia-Pacific ↗Origin2023
Georgia-Pacific began as a hardwood lumber wholesaler in Augusta, Georgia in 1927, evolved through mid-century pulp and paper mill acquisitions, and expanded into building products through the 1960s-90s. Koch Industries acquired it in 2005 for $21 billion, integrating it into a portfolio that spans petroleum refining (Flint Hills), fertilizers (Koch Fertilizer), fibers (Invista/Lycra), and electronics connectors (Molex).
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