G-P, Chesapeake Corp. Complete Joint Venture Deal

Georgia-Pacific Corp. and Chesapeake Corporation completed a previously announced agreement to combine Georgia-Pacific’s litho-laminated graphic packaging business and Chesapeake’s Color-Box litho-laminated graphic packaging business in a new joint venture.

The joint venture, officially known as Color-Box, LLC - A Georgia-Pacific and Chesapeake Joint Venture Company, will include Georgia-Pacific’s graphics, corrugated and specialty packaging facilities at Dubuque and Monticello, Iowa, and Madera, Calif., and Chesapeake’s Color-Box facilities at Richmond, Ind., Visalia, Calif., and Pelahatchie, Miss. The new venture will be based at Atlanta, Ga.