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IP Plant gets new manager
Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:01 AM
Jeannine Siembida has been named the new manager for the Georgetown Mill of IP.

 

  

Jeannine Siembida has been named the new manager for the Georgetown Mill of International Paper Co.

Current

mill manager Debby Feck has been promoted to vice president of

manufacturing for coated paperboard for International Paper Co. and

will serve as an officer of the company.

She will transfer to the IP’s Memphis, Tenn. headquarters. Both changes will be effective Dec. 1.

Siembida

has been with International Paper Co. since 1995. She comes to

Georgetown from Franklin, Va., where last month she had to tell about

1,100 workers that IP had decided

to close that mill sometime in the spring of 2010.

In

her 21 years of manufacturing experience, Siembida previously worked at

IP mills in Gardiner, Oregon, Vicksburg, Miss., Terre Haute, Ind. and

Prattville, Ala.

She and her husband Robert and their two children will relocate to the Georgetown area.

Feck

made the announcement of her promotion and Siembida being named her

successor in a meeting and announcement to Georgetown Mill workers on

Monday.

Siembida was named manager of the Franklin mill in 2007, the same year that Feck became the manager at Georgetown.

Feck

has worked in the paper industry for years, managing a Domtar mill in

her hometown in Maine before coming to work for IP. She also worked for

Georgia-Pacific for 16 years. She’s been active in the local community

and praised Georgetown Mill employees for their excellent work ethic

and involvement.

“Congratulations to Miss Debby and to Jeannine,

too,” Georgetown Mayor Lynn Wood Wilson said when contacted by the

Georgetown Times.

“The mill is such an asset to our town. We’ve all

been touched by IP. Their families are involved. We appreciate all they

do for the community.”

Wilson said Feck is “a real people person. She was always well thought of by her peers.

“I look forward to meeting the new lady when she arrives,” Wilson said.


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Posted by: On: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:27 PM

Comment Title: Ax Women cometh
Looks like the Axe Woman has arrived - she closed down a plant in VA - so she has been sent to Georgetown to do the same - wise up people

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