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The following is a list of previous names and corporate entities that were involved in the pulp and paper industry. Pages in category "Defunct pulp and paper companies" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Fort James Corporation was an American pulp and paper company based in Deerfield, Illinois. [3] Its products were sold under a variety of brand names, which included Brawny, Mardi Gras, and Quilted Northern. [4] [5] At the time of its acquisition, Fort James Corporation was the United States' largest manufacturer of commercial tissue. [5]
The company had assets of nearly $100 million, over 350,000 acres of timberland, and paper mills throughout the Pacific Coast capable of producing 1450 tons of finished paper daily. [3] It expanded steadily throughout the 1930s and substantially during the second world war when European paper manufacturers no longer exported to the United States.
KapStone acquired Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging from Brookfield Asset Management on July 18, 2013 . [13] Two years later, on June 1, 2015, it acquired Victory Packaging, headquartered in Houston, Texas. [14] On November 2, 2018, KapStone itself was acquired by rival pulp and paper company, WestRock Company. [15] [16]
The company was founded in 1969 as the James River Paper Company by Brenton Halsey and Robert Williams, with the purchase of Ethyl Corporation's Specialty Papers Division. [2] Halsey and Williams were both former employees of Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company ; the city of Richmond lies along the James River .
In 2006, International Paper sold the plant to Verso Holdings, LLC, and 1,000 people worked in the mill at that time. In 2015, Verso laid off 300 workers. A year later, it filed for bankruptcy. In 2017, it laid off an additional 300 people and idled a machine. In April 2020, a wood pulp digester exploded, destroying the mill's pulp machines. [3]
International Paper is the world's largest pulp and paper maker. Paper mill Mondi in Slovakia. The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood, specifically pulpwood, as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard, and other cellulose-based products. Diagram showing the sections of the Fourdrinier machine