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for wood (adjusted for inflation).
“There should be $12 to $15 dollars a ton difference between pulp wood and chip and saw. When they get down to $2, $3, $4, a lot of the pulp wood mills are
able to buy chip and saw trees.”
The good news is that Walmart has 30 million products available to buy online and is just joining in the e-commerce bonanza with Amazon. The fiber in a box can be recycled and reused seven times before it turns to dust... or is used for bath- room tissue. So more boxes have to be made. The wood procurement executives need raw material and they have plenty of it in the wood basket of South Georgia. “If I own a mill and I have people out there in charge of procuring wood for that mill, I am not going to tell them, ‘Hey, let’s go ahead and pay that landowner an extra $15 a ton,’” Hopkins said. “I am going to pay only what I have to. I under- stand it. That’s the American way. But if they expect us to stay in business, we are
going to have to get more money.”
RAY GLIER IS A JOURNALIST WITH 42 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE TELLING STORIES IN SPORTS AND BUSINESS. HE HAS SPENT MOST OF HIS CAREER IN THE ATLANTA AREA WORKING FOR USA TODAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE BOSTON GLOBE, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, YOUTH TODAY AND MANY OTHERS.
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