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New Manager Named At Local International Paper Mill
June 22, 2010
International Paper announced Monday that Carl Gunter has been named mill manager of the Pensacola Mill. He will assume overall leadership responsibility for the facility, including the management of the mill’s $65 million environmental improvement project.
Gunter comes to Pensacola from the Red River Mill in Campti, La. He has 27 years of experience and has also worked at International Paper’s Pineville, La., Oswego, N.Y., and Riverdale (Selma), Ala. mills. Carl, his wife Martha, and their family will relocate to the Pensacola area.
“My family and I are looking forward to relocating to the area and learning more about the people and the community,” said Gunter.
In a related move, former Pensacola Mill Manager Chris Read has been named director, Manufacturing Global Center of Excellence; he and his family will relocate to IP’s global headquarters in Memphis, Tenn.
Chris has been with International Paper more than 18 years, having worked at the Riverdale (Selma), Ala., Mobile, Ala., Whakatana, New Zealand, and Eastover, S.C., mills prior to his assignment in Pensacola.
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2 Responses to “New Manager Named At Local International Paper Mill”
In answering your question, I can truly say that no doubt the mills he was transferred from are definitely on the chopping block or already gone! It’s IP’s profane nature to gobble up all the mills in the country and literally destroy them so there’s no hope of ever utilizing a plant they shutdown again by any potential competitor. It happened at the mill I worked at(Oswego) and I was told by IP reps that that mill made a hell of a profit for the company every single month & even they couldn’t understand whay they shut it down; the safety record there was something most places could only dream of too! They not only shut it down, they basically destroyed the thing once shutdown operations began…and destroyed the livelihoods of the employees there at the time…some of which passed away not too long after the fact due to having all they’d known stripped away from them. One tell-tale sign an IP plant’s in trouble is when they start moving operation managers from one site to another, classic sign from those people at IP! Granted, you can make a good wage there…but you’re most assuredly on unstable ground….don’t get into any debts because you can go to work one day and be called into a “special” meeting with some suited-rep they flew in just for the bomb-dropping!
Just wondering, are the mills still open in these towns where this manager was prior to being sent here?
Sure hope so.