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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Shares as resported by the Tredegar Corporation Retirement Savings Plan (the &quot;Savings Plan&quot;) trustee.  The amount reported includes shares acquired in exempt transactions under Rule 16b-3 pursuant to the Savings Plan during the period from July 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Owned by wife.   (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Owned by adult son living in household, Samuel S. Gottwald.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Owned by adult son living in household, James Christian Gottwald.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Held for James M. Gottwald U/A dated 12-1-81, W. M. Gottwald and J. D. Gottwald, trustees.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">Held for Sarah Wren Gottwald U/A dated 3-1-83, W. M. Gottwald and J. D. Gottwald, trustees.   (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">Held by W. M. Gottwald as trustee FBO James C. Gottwald U/A dated 12-21-87.   (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F8">Held by W. M. Gottwald as trustee FBO Samuel S. Gottwald U/A dated 12-21-87.   (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F9">Held as co-trustee FBO Elizabeth Ingrid Gottwald U/A dated 3-28-85.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F10">Held as co-trustee FBO William M. Gottwald, Jr. U/A dated 10-13-83.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F11">Held by W. M. Gottwald, trustee of Sam's Crummey Trust (Samuel S. Gottwald) U/A dated 1-3-89.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F12">Held by W. M. Gottwald, trustee of James' Crummey Trust (James C. Gottwald) U/A dated 1-3-89.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F13">Held as trustee of Michael's Crummey Trust (William M. Gottwald, Jr.) U/A dated 1-3-89.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F14">Held as trustee of Beth's Crummey Trust (Elizabeth I. Gottwald) U/A dated 1-3-89.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F15">Held by me as custodian for son, Charles H. Gottwald.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F16">Held by W. M. Gottwald as trustee FBO Charles H. Gottwald U/A dated 10-18-89.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F17">Held by Thomas McN. Millhiser and James T. Gottwald, as trustees, of the John D. Gottwald Family Trust, FBO reporting person's children, U/A dated 4-10-92.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F18">Held by W. M. Gottwald as trustee FBO Margaret A. Gottwald U/A dated 3-09-92.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F19">Held as co-trustee FBO (among others) reporting person's family u/w Floyd D. Gottwald.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F20">Held as co-trustee of the William M. Gottwald Trust U/A dated 8-16-90.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
        <footnote id="F21">Held by W. M. Gottwald, trustee of Chase's Crummey Trust (Charles H. Gottwald) U/A dated 9/5/89.  (Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership.)</footnote>
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    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Patricia A. Thomas, Attorney-In-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2010-02-11</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
