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ATLANTA – Georgia-Pacific announced Tuesday that it will idle operations at its McCormick lumber and Allendale oriented strand board facilities due to overall market conditions.

Production will continue for up to 60 days while the company prepares the facilities to be idled. Georgia-Pacific is still working on overall scheduling and will ship existing inventory during the next couple of months.

The shipping department will continue to operate until each site’s inventory is depleted. All employees will be released at the end of production, except for those needed to manage inventory and maintain the sites.

Both facilities will be “idled” and maintained in a ready state to begin production should the long-range forecast for market conditions change. Georgia-Pacific chose to idle both facilities but maintain the equipment in working order so it can respond to stronger market conditions in the future.