Dixie® Small Cups. Dixie® 3 oz. and 5 oz. small cups have been temporarily discontinued due to ongoing labor challenges affecting our cup facilities.

Georgia-Pacific announced on Friday that Dixie manufacturing facility on Harbison Road, which employs about 230, will be expanding and will be the only factory in the world making Dixie cups by the end of 2021. The company plans to close its Lehigh Valley plant in Easton, Pa., the only other one that makes the cups.

Are Dixie® to go cups made from polystyrene foam? No, our Dixie® To Go cups are made from paper with a polyethylene coating and contain approximately 80% cellulose fiber by weight.

According to Plastics Today, most disposable paper cups are made of around 90 to 95% paper, while an additional 5% is made up of a thin plastic coating of polyethelene, a petroleum-based product. The plastic polyethelene coating is what makes the paper cup waterproof and able to hold liquids in the first place.