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Georgia-Pacific Wallboard Plant

Bob is at the port of Wilmington, Delaware, at the Georgia-Pacific wallboard plant. Every three weeks a cargo vessel laden with thirty thousand tons of gypsum from Nova Scotia arrives and drops the gypsum onto a conveyer belt that funnels into the football field-sized shed behind Bob. Gypsum is also known as calcium sulfate or plaster of Paris. Here, it is turned into wallboard. Bob meets with Monty Palmowski, the plan manager, for a tour. First the gypsum rock is dried and then ground. Then additional moisture is removed from the powdered form. Monty shows Bob the rolls of paper used on either side of the wallboard. The backing paper is rough while the front paper is smooth to accept paint. A slurry of gypsum is poured on top of the paper going down a conveyer belt. The sides are folded over and glue added to adhere the sides to the face paper, which is placed on top. It then goes through a machine that adjusts its thickness and produces a four-foot by eight hundred foot sheet of wallboard. The board sits to dry and then is cut into thirty six foot pieces and put in a drying oven by a conveyer belt that moves vertically. It sits in the oven for thirty-five minutes at six hundred degrees. After that it is cut into twelve-foot lengths and stacked and packaged.
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" In the port of Wilmington Delaware at the Georgia Pacific wallboard plant where every three weeks. A cargo vessel Aden went about 30000 tons of Jefferson that's been poured up in nova Scotia -- and all that gypsum which looks like this comes on a conveyor belt gets dumped into a huge -- behind me that's -- is about the size of football field and when it's filled with 30000 tons of gypsum and region all the way up to the ridge. Now the -- in which the chemist would called calcium us Allstate's. Is actually what they would know it's plaster of Paris and here at this facility they take this stuff they turned into wallboard we're gonna get together with Monty come out at the plant manager he's going to show us how to do it to one."

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" Finding the clients in the bottom. I'm piled on the home. We're halfway down Bob. Billboards and you'll see the Forest Service is about. Welcome wallboard. All right -- That's correct what's known as we -- every -- speak on. -- And at night. They've got a 36 foot length plant that that's correct. I -- we're tracking the stop on what I'm gonna. It's not a lot better on line if they're longer lengths okay. The reason -- put the boards at this point Bob. After -- and burn marks as it's coming from him back -- work okay. Now once -- got -- about doing it. Says we have a very -- drying ovens and we have good luck wallboard of the over the weekend that we envision that -- death. Tonight we have ten layers of wallboard going to end -- correct. And business market there and then -- one level and we'll be up on the night. Guess that the proximity switch on and -- goes what level of -- hot and help. Governors senators -- resolved. Boards and about 35 and drive around and -- five minutes and then at the other end they're coming how many crime that's threatening -- really going to go home. That's wherever he goes in Atlanta -- I don't really 121 direction and 800 the other group got I don't mind. OK and at this point that's very important for -- that we are at night out. Christina after the break ones outlines. We are here doing this kind of changes -- ranting on and that's correct and it is now middle of the floor market. And they've done they recognize me. Like Bob it's gonna mark. And Bob."

" Well money that was a terrific tour. -- know just all there is to know about how you make wallboard. I'm curious as to how much you -- and plumber average very production is one point three million square feet that's a lot of what really those -- out. That's -- of the pilgrims and apparently homes 300 single family homes that one day one that wasn't happening but thanks for the tour as the I really enjoy."

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