The company produces writing, printing, and copier papers for foreign and domestic markets. 2011Īndhra Pradesh Paper Mills Rajahmundry, which is now an International Paper company, is one of the biggest integrated paper and pulp manufacturing centers in India. Additionally, it owns shares in the Chileancompany Copec. In 1999, the company purchased Union Camp Corporation, and in 2000 Champion International Paper. In 1996, it purchased Federal Paper Board. In 1986, the company acquired the Hammermill Paper Company, founded in 1898, which managed eleven papermills nationwide, and had its corporate offices based in Erie, PA in 1988, the Masonite Corporation and in 1989, the German paper company Zanders Feinpapiere AG and the French paper manufacturer Aussedat Rey. In 1987, the company’s paper mill workers went on strike at a number of its U.S. Shifting economic forces resulted in the mill’s closure in November 2002. The historic mill was slated for demolition in 2011. In the early 20th century, the Hudson River Mill was one of the company’s largest plants and served both as its principal office, and a place where paper workers helped shape the direction of the industry’s early labor movement.Īfter World War II, Hudson River Mill workers developed and perfected the production of coated papers for the company. The Hudson River Mill in Corinth, New York, where the Sacandaga River joins the Hudson River, was a major pioneer in the development of the modern paper industry in the late 19th century. The first wood-based paper (newsprint) mill in New York, it was built by Albrecht Pagenstecher in 1869. Chisholm. The newly formed company supplied 60 percent of all newsprint in the country. Its founders and first two presidents were William Augustus Russell, who died suddenly in January 1899, and Hugh J. The company was incorporated January 31, 1898, upon the merger of 18 pulp and paper mills in the northeastern United States. International Paper was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN. The Distribution segment operates through the company’s subsidiary xpedx, Inc., which distributes products and services to customer markets, including commercial printers with printing papers and graphic pre-press, printing presses and post press equipment. Its coated paperboard business produces coated paperboard for a variety of packaging and commercial printing end uses.

The Consumer Packaging segment manufactures solid bleached sulfate board. It operates in two lines of business Uncoated and Coated papers and Market pulp and Uncoated Bristols.

The Printing Papers segment engages in the manufacturing of printing and writing papers. The Industrial Packaging segment engages in the manufacturing of containerboards, which include linerboard, medium, whitetop, recycled linerboard, recycled medium and saturating kraft. The company operates through four segments: Industrial Packaging, Printing Papers, Consumer Packaging and Distribution. engages in the business of manufacturing paper and packaging products. 0 Views Chistory, profile and corporate video

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