Paper City

Imagine a world without toilet paper? It's so easy a caveman did it. Theirs nothing wrong with some pine cone to the hine bone. Perhaps you might want to search
Joseph Gayetty on Ancestor.com. You could just find out your great great Uncle Joe created toilet paper back in 1857. The Golden years I would call it. Until you find out the soft goodness had came with a dose of wood splinters in it way back when. Ouch!  Quilted Northern being one of the first big names in mass producing the world's toilet paper.
Palatka, Florida populary known as Paper City is home to one of the top producers of toilet paper. You're Welcome. Georgia Pacific formerly known as Hudson Paper,  officially been operating in the area for over 70 years making your paper products! It generates 80% of the revenue here in Putnam county. That's a lot of paper!
Roll after roll the process to make better quality products has revolutionized over time. Just like with everything else. It's seems so simple until you really think how do you wipe your butt with a tree. I guess you have to be smarter then a 5th grader to make tissue after so. As the demand outbeats the supply, Georgia Pacific was forced for an upgrade to keep up with the competition.
500 million dollars worth of upgrade.2 That's a hefty facelift. It's like blowing the powerball jackpot in a day. The project officially broke ground on December 1st of this year with plans to be completed in a year. So how is GP organizing for such a massive chunk of change? The aquistion of around 12 new employees every couple weeks here at the Mill is one answer. Pretty sweet to bring 80+ extra jobs to our town. So how does 500 million dollars disappear into thin air? Simple. It's called TAD (Through-Air-Drying). The new and improved way of producing paper. The old reliable strategy is still faithful. Churning out paper but using hot steam lines, natural gas, lots of water. Seems like a dirty dangerous job doesn't it?