- Abitibi-Consolidated
- A Canadian company that operates 19 mills in Canada and the US producing newsprint, kraft market pulp, and communications papers.
- American Fine Paper Company
- Located in Appleton, Wisconsin, AFP specializes in the purchase and sale of bond, offset, kraft and newsprint in rolls and skids of sheets. AFP has 22 paper mills in the Fox River Valley producing printing and writing papers.
- Appleton
- Formerly known as Appleton Papers, Appleton is a large and innovative paper company head-quartered in--you guessed it--Appleton, Wisconsin. Appleton Papers produces carbonless and thermal papers, labels, etc., as well as many specialty coated papers. They developed the microencapsulation process behind carbonless paper. And they are doing some great things with new technology like RFID (radiofrequency identification).
- Boise Cascade
- A well-designed site that offers information about BC products, the company itself, and the pulp and paper industries. Especially noteworthy is their "Quick Facts" page on forest replenishment and environmental issues. That's an extra-mile effort that deserves a "hats off." In addition to pulp and paper, Boise Cascade produces engineered wood products, including plywood and particleboard.
- Bowater
- Bowater is the largest producer of newsprint in the US. They also produce lumber, pulp, and uncoated groundwood papers. They also produce coated papers, book papers, market pulp, etc. Alliance Forest Products has been acquired by Bowater.
- Buckeye Absorbent Products
- A leading producer of absorbent fibers and airlaid nonwovens for personal care markets.
- Canfor Corporation
- A British Columbian company that recently acquired Slocan as well as Northwood Pulp and Timber Company. Their web site includes a great deal of information, including materials for teachers to help in educating about forests and environmental issues.
- Clampitt Paper
- A small company in Texas with a long tradition of making fine papers. A creative site.
- Crane & Co.
- Founded in 1801, Crane & Co. is a world leader in the production of secure papers for currency and official documents. Located in Dalton, Massachusetts. They also offer business and nonwoven papers.
- Domtar (Canada)
- Domtar is a major forest products company in Canada, producing pulp, paper, construction materials, etc. This site may be THE PREMIER CORPORATE SITE in terms of its educational benefit. In particular, their Wonderful World of Trees is definitely one of the best sites on the Web about trees. It is loaded with photos, info, games, etc. (Nice idea - I wish more paper companies offered educational features in their web site.) Requires frames.
- FiberMark
- Formerly Specialty Paperboard. They produce specialty fiber materials, including paper and synthetics. They have nine production facilities in the US and Europe.
- Finch, Pruyn & Co.
- This small company in Upstate New York has historic roots and a fine web site with a lot of information (including history dating back to 1865). They produce fine coated papers.
- Fox River Paper Company
- A leading manufacturer of premium writing, text and cover papers. Founded in 1883 and located in Appleton, Wisconsin. Their CEO, Bob Buchanan of Appleton, was named PIMA's 2000 Executive of the Year.
- Georgia-Pacific
- A giant in papermaking and forest products. GP's paper products include tissue (bath tissue, facial tissue, napkins, etc.), cups, packaging, specialty papers, and more. GP is also a major producer of building products such as plywood, gypsum, etc. The GP Website offers a lot of useful information, including do-it-yourself projects with forest products, such as making a dog house. If you are looking for the former Fort James Corporation, which itself was a merger of the former James River Corp. and Fort Howard Corp., then you've come to the right place, because Fort James was acquired by GP.
- P.H. Glatfelter
- A paper company that produces tobacco papers, printing paper, and specialty papers. Headquartered in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. The company also runs subsidiaries in Australia and Canada, including the Glatfelter Pulp Wood Co. Their Website provides an overview of the pulp and paper industry, as well as the forest preservation efforts of the company.
- Graphic Packaging International
- Formerly Riverwood. GPI specialilzes in innovative packaging solutions for beverage and consumer products companies. GPI operates 4 paper mills, 27 converting facilities and 4 machinery manufacturing facilities worldwide.
- Hollingsworth & Vose Co.
- Founded in 1843 and headquartered in East Walpole, Massachusetts, H & V offers specialty, industrial and technical papers and nonwovens. Process capabilities include wet laid, dry laid, meltblown and composite technologies.
- Inveresk PLC
- A British company that acquired Weir Paper. Inveresk offers a useful Learn about Paper section of their site.
- International Paper
- One of the world's largest and most diverse paper companies with operations in over 30 countries and numerous products, including printing and writing papers, fluff pulp, market pulp, linerboard and corrugated boxes, packaging, etc. IP has acquired many companies, such as the former Champion Paper and Union Camp. Many innovative products and materials come from this company.
- Cascades
- Formerly Johnson Corrugated Products, Corp. This is a Canadian company with a variety of products such as packaging materials, tissue, and molded pulp.
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation
- K-C is the world's largest producer of tissue, including facial tissue, bath tissue, and paper towels. Personal care items such as disposable diapers and feminine care products are also an important part of this large company, along with nonwoven materials and other products. In 1995, K-C merged with Scott Paper Company and now has operations in 35 countries.
- Klabin Paper (Brazil)
- A Brazilian paper company with an interesting history.
- Kruger
- Kruger is a diversified maker of paper products based in Montreal.
- Marcal Paper Products
- Marcal offers 100% recycled tissue and other products. Their site is a good source of recycling information. One example is an interesting discussion on using the clay recovered from coated paper as an additive in cement. There is a kids page with games, a maze, etc., all pushing recycling. Information on company history has some interesting details, including the founder's invention of a wax paper dispenser.
- Menasha Corporation
- Founded in 1849 and located in Neenah, Wisconsin, Menasha Corporation operates more than 60 facilities serving various industries such as packaging, promotional graphics, materials handling, polymer technologies, and paperboard. Menasha Corp. is in the midst of a wave of layoffs in 1999.
- MeadWestvaco Corporation
- MeadWestvaco is a large and diverse paper company (packaging, imaging technologies, coated papers, chemical products, etc.), combining the expertise of the former Westvaco and Mead companies. As one interesting example of their modern approach to business, MeadWestvaco has launched
- Mohawk Paper
- A paper company in New York that produces a variety of paper grades, including premium writing papers, artist papers, and papers for digital printing.
- Minas Basin Pulp and Paper
- A Nova Scotia company making100% recycled paper.
- NamPak
- This African company is the second largest packaging company in the Southern Hemisphere and includes Nampak Tissue Division in South Africa. There are a variety of mills and offices in several countries.
- Norbord
- (Formerly Nexfor.) Norbord is a forest products company divested from Noranda in 1998 (then known as Nexfor - they had a name change recently). Based in Toronto, Ontario, they produce wood-based panelboard producer with annual sales in excess of $1 billion. The company has 16 operations in the United States, Canada and Europe.
- Norske Skog
- This Norwegian company specializes in wood-containing printing papers and is one of the world's largest producers of newsprint.
- Packaging Corporation of America
- Formerly Tenneco Packaging.
- Potlatch Corporation
- Centered in Spokane, Washington, Potlatch is a forest products company with about 1.5 million acres of timberland in Arkansas, Idaho and Minnesota. They manufacture wood products, coated printing papers, bleached paperboard, premium private-label tissue products and market pulp.
- Procter and Gamble
- A major producer of tissue and absorbent articles, along with many other consumer products. Procter has operations in 140 countries. Their site is well crafted and informative. There is also a site for Procter and Gamble of Germany (alles auf Deutsch).
- Rayonier
- A global supplier of timber, performance fibers and wood products.
- Sappi
- This is an international forest products group based in South Africa. They have a production capacity of over 3.2 million tons of paper and 2.6 million tons of pulp per year.
- Smurfit-Stone Container
- Stone Container and Jefferson Smurfit merged giving this large company that specializes in corrugated board and packaging materials. Now they are expanding into RFID and a variety of other innovative packaging solutions.
- Sonoco
- Sonoco is a global packaging corporation employing 19,000 people. They are especially known for their paper tubes and cores for wound rolls, produced with special proprietary methods. They also produce grocery bags, composite cans, pressure-sensitive labels, etc.
- StoraEnso
- The result of a merger between the Scandinavian companies, Stora and Enso. They hae also acquired Consolidated Papers.
- SCA - Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget
- A large Swedish company. SCA has 35,000 employees and deals with paper and packaging, primarily in Europe. SCA is also one of the biggest private forest owners in Europe with extensive research in forestry and pulp & paper manufacturing.
- Tembec
- A new and interesting site with information about Tembec's history, operations, products, environmental and forest management activities as well as financial results, company news and employment opportunities.
- Treeco
- Recycled, "tree-free" paper products - including pens and materials made from circuit boards.
- UPM-Kymmene
- This Finnish company is one of the largest forest products companies in the world. It deals in areas such as production of chemical pulp, sawmilling, plywood, papers for office and printing use, and magazines, advertising materials and sales catalogs.
- Von Drehle Corporation
- Headquartered in North Carolina, the von Drehle Corporation specialized in away-from-home products such as pper towels, tissue, and dispensers.
- Wausau Paper Mills
- Headquartered in Wausau, Wisconsin, they manufacture uncoated printing, writing and imaging papers, specializing in colored papers. The Web site is attractive and diverse, even offering a movie about the mill (the 2 MB movie file is surprisingly large for the very brief movie offered).
- Whatman Company
- A major producer of filter paper, engineered fibers, and special cellulose products for scientific applications, including diagnostic devices for a wide variety of analysis and separation techniques. Their Website is informative and interesting.
- Weyerhaeuser
- With nearly 40,000 employees and over 5 million acres of US forests, Weyerhaeuser is a major player in the forest products industries. They grow and harvest timber and make products such as building materials, pulp, paper, specialized fibers and other products. They lead the world in market pulp production.
- Willamette Industries
- Based in Portland, Oregon and founded in 1906, Willamette has two major product lines. Its Building Materials Group manufactures lumber, plywood, composite panels and custom products as well as engineered wood products. Its Paper Group manufactures business forms, fine paper products, market pulp, and unbleached paper products such as corrugated boxes and bags and sacks. They also produce their own inks and printing plates for several custom applications.
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