Philadelphia, PA
Atlanta, GA
Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Jackson, TN
Los Angeles, CAAtlanta, GA
service center.
The Southeast paper and packaging belt, plus the automotive corridor that grew up beside it. Six states, run from Atlanta, mostly inside a day of the shop.
Most of this territory is within a day's drive
The states this
center is assigned.
Covers the Southeast packaging and paper belt, with crews regularly working converting plants and mills across Georgia and the Carolinas.
Atlanta · Savannah · Augusta · Macon · Columbus · Charlotte · Greensboro and the Triad · Raleigh and Durham · Winston-Salem · Greenville and Spartanburg · Columbia · Charleston · Birmingham · Huntsville · Montgomery · Mobile · Tuscaloosa · Jacksonville · Orlando · Tampa · Miami · Chattanooga · Knoxville · Nashville
Why the Southeast is a paper story
More paper is produced in Georgia than in any other state, and the mill base running from the coast at Savannah up through Augusta and west into Alabama pulled an entire converting industry in behind it. Where there are mills there are box plants, and where there are box plants there is paper dust on every horizontal surface in the building.
That is the defining characteristic of this territory. A corrugator in north Georgia and a corrugator in eastern Pennsylvania have the same problem, but the density here means the Atlanta crews run that scope more often than any other, and they run it on a schedule rather than as an emergency.
Two of the customers Kelly names publicly, International Paper and Georgia-Pacific, are built on this industry. Georgia-Pacific is headquartered in Atlanta.
The industries these
crews work in most.
Kelly serves every industry from every center. These are the ones concentrated inside this territory, which is what the crews here see week to week.
Paper and pulp
Georgia produces more paper than any other state, and the mill and converting base running from Savannah through Augusta and across into Alabama is the reason this center exists. Fiber and dust accumulation in a mill is continuous, which makes most of this work a recurring program rather than a one-off.
Corrugated and packaging
The converting plants that follow the mills, concentrated around Atlanta, the Carolinas and north Georgia. Starch, adhesive and paper dust on corrugators and the steel above them.
Poultry and protein processing
Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina carry the densest poultry processing base in the United States, under continuous USDA inspection. Sanitation there is relentless and the overhead and structural work still has to happen around it.
Automotive
The Southeast assembly corridor through Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, and the parts base feeding it. Kelly names Mercedes among its customers, and Alabama is where Mercedes builds in the United States.
Beverage and food
Bottling and food production across Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas, in plants that audit hard and schedule tight.
Every Kelly service,
staffed from Atlanta.
The full Kelly service list, the same full-time crews and the same documentation. Nothing is handed to a local vendor because the job is a long way from headquarters.
Who turns up,
and when.
Full-time Kelly employees
Every technician who walks into your plant from this center is a Kelly employee, trained to Kelly procedures and carrying Kelly insurance. No brokered labor, no local subcontractor filling in because the drive is long.
One number, wherever you are
888-422-2623 reaches Kelly directly. There is no regional switchboard and no call center. The call routes to a specialist who will tell you which center covers your plant and what the schedule actually looks like.
Scheduled against your window
Shutdowns, sanitation shifts, changeovers and planned outages. The survey sets the scope and the crew size is built for the window you have, rather than the window we would prefer.
Multi-site programs run as one
A group with plants in several states is one program with one point of contact, not one contract per site. Centers cross territory lines for these, which is what the overlaps below are for.
2 of the 6 states assigned to Atlanta are also assigned to another center. That is deliberate, not an accident of the map. It means the nearest available crew takes the work rather than the one the territory line says owns it.
- Alabamaalso Jackson
- Tennesseealso Chicago, Jackson
Five more crews,
covering the rest.
Coverage is all 48 contiguous states. If your plant is outside this territory, one of these is the one that reaches it.
See the full territory map and the states each center covers on the service areas overview.
Tell us about the facility.
We'll tell you straight.
A specialist reviews every request, not a call center. If it is not Kelly work, we will say so and point you in the right direction.