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The Forest Products Industry

The forest products industry is a major manufacturing sector in North America. Here are the companies that harvest and manufacture products from the forest...

About Corporate Forestry - Homes on the Web

New information on top forestry corporations to include the web address and stock information....

About Corporate Forestry - Homes on the Web

New information on top forestry corporations to include the web address and stock information....

American Forest and Paper Association

AF&PA is the national trade association of the forest products industry.

American Museum of Papermaking

A very informative site on papermaking, both past and present. The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking is devoted to the history and education of all people on paper and paper technology.

Boise Cascade

Headquartered in Boise, Idaho; sales $4 Bil; employees 17,220; tel. 208-384-6161; integrated producer of  paper and wood products; owns over 2 million acres in the U.S.

Buckeye Technologies

Headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Sales 713 Mil Leading manufacturer and worldwide marketer of value-added cellulose products. Ticker:BKI

Chesapeake Corporation

Headquartered in Richmond Virginia.Sales $1.2 Bil Market leader in specialty packaging and merchandising services Ticker:CSK

Georgia-Pacific

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia; sales $13 Bil; employees 50,000; tel. 404-652-4000; integrated producer of paper and wood products; owns 5.8 million acres in North America.

International Paper

  Headquartered in Purchase, New York; sales  $15 Bil; employees 70,000; tel. 914-397-1500; major U.S. producer of paper, packaging, distribution, specialty and forest products needs.

Kimberly-Clark

 Headquartered in Dallas, Texas; sales  $7 Bil; employees 42,000; tel. 214-830-1200; Producer of personal care, tissue, and away-from-home products; a Fortune 100 company.

Louisiana-Pacific

  Headquartered in Portland, Oregon; sales  $3 Bil; employees 13,000; tel. 503-221-0800; building materials manufacturer.

Mead

   Headquartered in Dayton, Ohio; sales  $5 Bil; employees 17,000; tel. 513-495-6323;paper and paper packaging manufacturer---Now MeadWestVaco.

MeadWestvaco

This new new company formed by Mead and Westvaco is headquartered in Stanford, Connecticut and has an annual sales of $8 billion. Landholdings are 3.5 million acres.

Temple-Inland

    Headquartered in Diboll, Texas; sales  $3 Bil; employees 13,000; tel. 409-829-5511; building and paper products manufacturer.

Rayonier

Rayonier is the world's premier producer of high performance specialty cellulose and has 2.4 million acres of timber in the U.S. and New Zealand. Ticker:RYN

Smurfit-Stone Container

Headquartered in Chicago Illinois. Sales $7.1 Bil World's largest integrated producer of paperboard and paper-based packaging products. Ticker:SSCC

Westvaco

Headquartered in New York, New York; sales  $3 Bil; employees 15,000; tel. 212-688-5000; paper, paperboard, and packaging manufacturer. ---Now MeadWestvaco

Weyerhaeuser

Headquartered in Tacoma, Washington; sales  $10 Bil; employees 39,000; tel. 206-924-2345; owns 5.5 million acres of forest in the U.S; the world's largest owner of private, merchantable softwood.

Willamette Industries

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon; sales  $3 Bil; employees 12,000; tel 503-227-5581; paper and building materials manufacturer; owns 1.8 million acres of forest in the U.S.

Forestindustry.com

ebusiness solutions for the global forest industry.

Steve Shook's Directory of Forest Products, Wood Science, Marketing - Online

I have seen this forestry site for several years and conclude that it is a forestry web pioneer.  It is an enormous work and has to have enormous attention in selecting sites. It is a pacific northwest operation with world wide appeal.  It fills a niche

TAPPI - The Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry

The paper industry's main technical association...

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