CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIES, INC.

3100 Joe Jerkins Boulevard
Austell, Georgia 30106
(770) 948-3101
(Address and Telephone Number of Principal Executive Offices)

Ronald J. Domanico
Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
Caraustar Industries, Inc.
3100 Joe Jerkins Boulevard
Austell, Georgia 30106
(Name and address of agent for service)
(770) 948-3101
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Title of Each Class

Proposed Maximum

Amount Of

Of Securities To Be

Amount To Be

Offering Price Per

Aggregate Offering

Registration

Registered

Unit(2)

Price(2)

Fee

Common Stock, par value $.10 per share, including rights to purchase Common Stock thereunder and associated preferred stock purchase rights(3)

800,000

(1)

8.16

6,528,000.00

529.00

(1)

In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein.

(2)

In accordance with Rule 457(h)(1) of Regulation C, the proposed maximum offering price per share is computed on the basis of the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock as quoted on the Nasdaq National Market System on June 11, 2003.

(3)

Each share of Common Stock issued by the Company has one attached preferred stock purchase right under the Amended and Restated Rights Agreement dated as of May 24, 1999, between the Company and its Rights Agent.

This registration statement registers 800,000 additional shares of Common Stock of Caraustar Industries, Inc., including purchase rights granted with respect to such Common Stock and associated preferred stock purchase rights, under the Caraustar Industries, Inc. Employees’ Savings Plan, for which shares and rights have previously been registered on Form S-8 (Registration No. 33-77682) (the “Prior Registration Statement”). The contents of the Prior Registration Statement are incorporated by reference into this registration statement.

The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Austell, State of Georgia on June 12, 2003.

The Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Administrative Committee of the Caraustar Industries, Inc. Employees’ Savings Plan has caused the registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Austell, State of Georgia, on June 12, 2003.

Each undersigned director and officer of Caraustar Industries, Inc. hereby constitutes and appoints Ronald J. Domanico and Thomas V. Brown, and each of them, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, for him and his name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign on his behalf any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments and amendments thereto) to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and grants unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to de done in and about the premises as fully as to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, and hereby ratifies and confirms all that such attorneys-in-fact or agents, or any of them, or their substitutes shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on June 12, 2003.


SIGNATURE		TITLE

/s/ Thomas V. Brown Thomas V. Brown		Director, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ William A. Nix, III William A. Nix, III		Vice President, Treasurer and Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)

/s/ Ronald J. Domanico Ronald J. Domanico		Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ Russell M. Robinson, II Russell M. Robinson, II		Chairman of the Board of Directors

/s/ Bob M. Prillaman Bob M. Prillaman		Director

/s/ Ralph M. Holt, Jr. Ralph M. Holt, Jr.		Director

James H. Hance, Jr.		Director

/s/ Robert J. Clanin Robert J. Clanin		Director

/s/ James E. Rogers James E. Rogers		Director

Dennis M. Love		Director

/s/ Michael J. Keough Michael J. Keough		Director


		*Filed herewith()**
		or Incorporated
		by Reference
Exhibit		from Previous		Company Reg. No.
Number	Description	Exhibit Number		or Report

4.01	Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company		3.01	Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1992 (SEC File No. 0-20646)

4.02	Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, dated May 27, 1999		3.02	Form 10-K/A, for the year ended December 31, 2001 (SEC File No. 0-20646)

4.03	Specimen Stock Certificate		4.01	Registration Statement on Form S-1 (SEC File No. 33-50582)

4.04	Articles 3 and 4 of the Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation (included in Exhibit 4.01)

4.05	Article II of the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Bylaws (included in Exhibit 4.02)

4.06	Amended and Restated Rights Agreement, dated as of May 24, 1999, between the Company and The Bank of New York as Rights Agent		10.1	Form 8-K dated June 1, 1999 (SEC File No. 0-20646)

4.07	Indenture, dated as of June 1, 1999, between the Company and the Bank of New York, as Trustee, regarding the Company’s 7 3/8% Notes due 2009		4.05	Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1999 (SEC File No. 0-20646)

4.08	First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 1, 1999, between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee		4.06	Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1999 (SEC File No. 0-20646)

4.09	Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 29, 2001, between the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and The Bank of New York, as Trustee		4.07	Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000 (SEC File No. 0-20646)

4.10	Caraustar Industries, Inc. Employees’ Savings Plan (including amendments)		*

5.01	Opinion of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.		*

23.01	Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP		*

23.02	Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP (omitted pursuant to Rule 437a).#

23.03	Consent of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. (included in Exhibit 5.1)		*

24.01	Powers of Attorney (included on signature page)		*

99.01	Internal Revenue Service Determination Letter for the Caraustar Industries, Inc. Employees’ Savings Plan		*


North Carolina		58-1388387
(State or other jurisdiction of		(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)		Identification No.)


		CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIES, INC. EMPLOYEES’ SAVINGS PLAN

		By:		/s/ Barry A. Smedstad

				Barry A. Smedstad Chairman, Administrative Committee


		CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIES, INC

		By:		/s/ Ronald J. Domanico

				Ronald J. Domanico Vice President and Chief Financial Officer