Exhibit 99.1

              Georgia Gulf Announces Third Quarter Net Income Will
                  be About $3 Million Lower Due to Plant Outage


    ATLANTA, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Georgia Gulf Corporation
(NYSE: GGC) announced today that third quarter earnings will be lower by
approximately $3 million after taxes, or $.09 per diluted share, as a result
of an unscheduled outage at the company's vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant
in Plaquemine, Louisiana.  The outage occurred on July 31 and start-up of the
plant is scheduled for August 14.  Normal production rates will resume shortly
thereafter.

    The outage will not result in a loss of sales volume as the company has
been able to ship from inventory and shift production to its other VCM plants.
The company expects that customers will receive shipments as scheduled.
The reduction in earnings is primarily the result of the fixed manufacturing
expenses being absorbed by lower production volume as well as costs associated
with repairing the plant.

    Georgia Gulf, headquartered in Atlanta, is a major manufacturer and
marketer of two integrated product lines, chlorovinyls and aromatics.  Georgia
Gulf's chlorovinyls products include chlorine, caustic soda, vinyl chloride
monomer and vinyl resins and compounds.  Georgia Gulf's primary aromatic
products include cumene, phenol and acetone.

    This news release contains forward-looking statements subject to the "safe
harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

    These forward-looking statements are based on management's assumptions
regarding business conditions, and actual results may be materially different.
Risks and uncertainties inherent in these assumptions include, but are not
limited to, future global economic conditions, economic conditions in the
industries to which the company sells, industry production capacity, raw
material and energy costs and other factors discussed in the Securities and
Exchange Commission filings of Georgia Gulf Corporation, including our annual
report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002 and our subsequent
reports on 10Q.


    CONTACT:  Dick Marchese
              VP of Finance and CFO
              770-395-4531


SOURCE  Georgia Gulf Corporation
    -0-                             08/12/2003
    /CONTACT:  Dick Marchese, VP of Finance and CFO of Georgia Gulf
Corporation, +1-770-395-4531/
    (GGC)

CO:  Georgia Gulf Corporation
ST:  Georgia
IN:  CHM
SU:  ERP