Topic(s)
- Technology
Highlights
Tour Georgia-Pacific’s Innovation Institute and explore the company's focus on innovation, research and development, customer support, and education.
Overview
Georgia-Pacific’s Innovation Institute (i2) is regarded as the packaging industry’s leading center for research, design and innovation. The i2 drives change through a creative, collaborative environment dedicated to helping its partners build their brands, improve their operations and optimize their packaging.
Georgia-Pacific’s R&D environment offers state-of-the-art packaging design and testing, including rapid prototyping and a full range of material pre-conditioning prior to testing; a simulated retail space allowing its partners to see their finished product on the shelf; and a robust pool of diverse packaging talent, creating the opportunity to build cross-functional teams to develop sustainable packaging system solutions.
Its focus on innovation, research and development, customer support, and education for both customers and employees helps build knowledgeable networks and create an environment of continuous learning.
Please note: Personal identification is required to attend this tour.
Company
Based in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries are among the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of bath tissue, paper towels and napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers and building products. Its familiar consumer brands include Quilted Northern®, Angel Soft®, Brawny®, Dixie®, enMotion®, Sparkle® and Vanity Fair®. Georgia-Pacific has long been a leading supplier of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers. Its Georgia-Pacific Recycling subsidiary is among the world’s largest traders of paper, metal and plastics. The company operates more than 150 facilities, employs approximately 30,000 people directly and creates more than 80,000 jobs indirectly. https://www.gppackaging.com/
Check out this publicly available virtual tour of the i2: http://tour.gpinnovates.com/index.htm
