The first
wallboard sporting Lafarge end tapes came off the line in Wilmington
at 8:00 am on September 16, 1996. The entire staff of the Gypsum
Division all three people were on hand to watch history in the
making. Had they been characters in a cartoon, question marks would
have been drawn over their heads.
We didnt know
anything, explains Jim Black, now a human resources executive with
Lafarge Corporation. The physical plants and sales people came from
Georgia Pacific, but we had no infrastructure and little practical
experience to call upon.