Maximizing Tree Potential

GP Cellulose is dedicated to creating the products you value while identifying opportunities to reduce waste. One of the ways we put this into practice is by leveraging residual products from forest and manufacturing processes. This allows us to produce our pulp products efficiently and effectively, while also creating bioenergy and nature-based chemicals. In addition, we use nearly every part of the tree. Join us as we dive deeper into how we are maximizing tree potential to help minimize waste.

Harnessing Nearly Every Part of the Tree

Beyond producing our primary product, pulp, we use nearly every resource from the tree, ensuring minimal waste and maximum utility.

  • During harvesting, most of the limbs, branches, leaves, and needles remain in the forest to promote nutrient cycling.
  • Water makes up approximately half of every tree, which we capture and reprocess in mill evaporators.
  • Black Liquor is converted into bioenergy in a recovery boiler, serving as a primary energy source for our facilities.
  • Pine Chemicals such as Turpentine and Crude Tall Oil (CTO) are extracted and can be sold in the market as a renewable feedstock.

* Based on industry averages and internal data

Maximizing Resource Efficiency

To promote growth and reduce mortality rates, forests are regularly thinned. The smaller trees removed during this process are used in GP’s pulp and paper mills, while the larger ones are harvested and processed at GP’s plywood and sawmills. We take internal and external residuals, including wood chips from lumber mills, and beneficially repurpose them. Georgia-Pacific is one of the only forest products companies in the United States that owns both wood products mills and pulp mills, helping us have an integrated supply chain of residuals – helping ensure nothing goes to waste.

Maximizing tree potential and ensuring resource efficiency supports our commitment to being your partner in environmental stewardship. Learn more about GP Cellulose’s commitment to growing responsibly by visiting: https://gpcellulose.com/sustainability/