SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

All Paper2020 programming will take place at The Lotte New York Palace.

PAPER2020Convention Daily

Welcome to Paper2020!

Year-end Trade Deals Offer Hope for the Future

On behalf of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) and the National Paper Trade Association (NPTA), it is our pleasure to welcome you to Paper2020! Paper2020 offers unparalleled opportunities to make new connections, renew existing relationships and gain new insight on emerging industry issues. On Monday, the Paper Industry Leader-ship Session will feature a distinguished panel of executives who will discuss

The United States’ use of tariffs as a policy tool and retaliatory tariffs imposed by trading partners on U.S. goods generated strong headwinds last year for international trade around the world. President Trump imposed tariffs — or threatened to do so — on hun-dreds of billions of dollars of imports from a host of countries, citing adverse trade practices by U.S. trading partners and the large U.S. trade deficit. Trade tensions between the U.S. and major trading partners directly and indirectly affected the performance of U.S. pulp and paper industry and its exports in 2019. Total U.S. wood pulp exports declined 6.4 percent to $5.4 billion, while exports of paper, paperboard and converted products dropped 8.1 percent to an estimated $15.1 billion. U.S. imports of paper, paperboard and converted products were off 4.4 percent to $16.3 billion.

U.S.-China Trade Conflict

The main cause of uncertainty has been the trade conflict between the U.S. and China featuring tit-for-tat tariffs each country imposed on the other’s products. After finding that

how to meet the challenges of climate change and the circular economy. Tuesday will begin with an update from Paper and Packaging Board Executive Director Mary Anne Hanson on the five-year impact and accomplishments of the program, followed by seminars from Fastmarkets RISI’s Derek Mahlburg and Abdulla Zaid on the global market trends for printing-writing papers, paper-based packaging and recovered fiber. The Paper2020 Luncheon will feature Carla Harris, vice chairman, global wealth management and senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley. She will impart her expertise and wisdom in addressing the importance and power of perceptions in the workplace, nurtur-ing key relationships to ensure success and the qualities of impactful and influential leaders that attract and grow

a talented workforce. During the Luncheon, NPTA will present Mike Graves of Midland Paper, Packaging + Supplies with the Stanley O. Styles Industry Excellence Award. Throughout Paper2020, networking sessions, suite meetings and various association committee meetings will take place. The Paper2020 Connections Lounge will be open to all registrants to meet, recharge between meetings and plan your day. Official Paper2020 Suites are open to-day from 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Your Paper2020 Convention Daily includes a complete list of suites and their locations. Do make sure to contact each company directly to make appointments, as they maintain their own schedules. Thank you for joining us in New York City. Enjoy your time at Paper2020!

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SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2020

Heidi BrockPresident and CEO, AF&PA

Matthew BrunoExecutive Vice President, NPTA

SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2020

• 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Paper2020 Registration Desk Mezzanine, 2nd Floor Sponsored by Boise Paper

• 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Connections Lounge Reid Salon, 2nd Floor Sponsored by Domtar

• 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Paper2020 Convention Daily Desk Mezzanine, 2nd Floor

• 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Official Hospitality Suite Check-in

• 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. *Official Hospitality Suite Hours

MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2020

• 7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Paper2020 Registration Desk Mezzanine, 2nd Floor Sponsored by Boise Paper

• 7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Paper2020 Convention Daily Desk Mezzanine, 2nd Floor

• 7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Connections Lounge Reid Salon, 2nd Floor Sponsored by Domtar

• 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. *Official Hospitality Suite Hours

• 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Paper Industry Leadership Forum: Sustainability 2.0 – Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change and the Circular Economy Villard Ballroom, 2nd Floor Open to all registrants. (suites closed)

• 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Paper2020 Reception Reid Salon, 2nd Floor Hosted by AF&PA and NPTA Open to all registrants

* Access to individually hosted company Official Paper2020 suites is by appointment only. Contact each company directly to make appointments, as they maintain their own schedules. See page 22 for the complete list of suites.

China violated U.S. trading rights in-cluding theft of intellectual property, forced transfer of technology, currency manipulation and massive subsidies to state-owned-enterprise, the Trump Administration during the summer of 2018 imposed additional tariffs of 25 percent on $50 billion worth of Chinese products, including such products as paper and paperboard machinery and parts. China retaliated with 25 percent tariffs on a list of imports from the

U.S. that included recovered paper. Following this, the U.S. imposed 10 percent tariffs, rising to 25 percent in June 2019, on another $200 billion of Chinese goods, including paper, paperboard and converted products. China responded with tariffs on more U.S. goods, including 5 percent tariffs on U.S. wood pulp and 5-20 percent tariffs on U.S. paper and paperboard. The trade war has had a negative effect on two-way trade last year. On a dollar value basis, U.S. exports of wood pulp to China were off 13.7 percent and exports of paper and paperboard were down close to 23 percent, including a 35 percent drop in the exports of kraft linerboard. The value of recovered paper exports to China was down 33 per-cent after a 21 percent decline in 2018. China’s 25 percent tariffs on U.S. re-covered paper — on top of volume and quality import restrictions in place since 2018 — added to the slide. On the im-port side, paper and paperboard from China, mostly converted products (e.g., paper bags, corrugated and folding boxes, paper plates and hygienic paper goods) were down almost 20 percent.

On a dollar value basis, U.S. exports of paper and paperboard were down close to 23 percent, including a 35 percent drop in the exports of kraft linerboard.

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Metsä Board has again achieved a place on CDP’s prestigious ‘A List’ for climate change. CDP is a global non-profit environmental disclosure platform that drives companies and govern-ments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests. Metsä Board has been included on the CDP Climate ‘A List’ since 2016.

“Metsä Board is a leader in sustain-ability and a position on the CDP Climate ‘A List’ is a welcome recogni-tion to our continuous efforts,” said Mika Joukio, CEO of Metsä Board. “Last year we published our target to have 100% fossil free mills by 2030 and the ‘A List’ position confirms that we are working towards this ambitious goal.” Metsä Board was recognized for its actions to cut emissions, mitigate climate risks and develop a low-carbon economy. It is one of a small number of high-performing companies out of the thousands that were scored. In 2019, over 8,400 companies submitted information to be independently assessed against CDP’s supplier engagement rating methodology.

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WestRock Company has been named to FORTUNE magazine’s annual list of the World’s Most Admired Companies. It is the fifth-consecutive year WestRock has been named to the prestigious list. The World’s Most Admired Compa-nies list is widely considered to be the definitive report card on corporate reputation. It is based on company surveys and peer ratings from senior executives, directors and analysts on nine attributes considered critical to a company’s global success. “I am proud of the work our 50,000 team members around the world do every day to connect people to products and to deliver value for our customers and stockholders,” said Steve Voorhees, CEO of WestRock. “This honor recog-nizes their dedication and commitment to making WestRock the leading paper and packaging company.”

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Domtar Corporation in mid-February entered into an asset purchase agree-ment with Appvion Operations, Inc. to acquire Appvion’s Point of Sale (POS) paper business. The agreement includes the coater and related equip-ment located only at the West Carroll-ton, Ohio, facility as well as a license for all corresponding intellectual property. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2020. “The combination of Domtar’s world-class paper-making capabili-ties with the West Carrollton coat-er’s significant scale will make a globally competitive point of sale paper business and provide new options for our future growth,”

said John Williams, President and CEO of Domtar. Graeme Hodson, President of Appvion’s Paper division, noted, “Appvion and Domtar have enjoyed a strong mutually beneficial relation-ship over the last several years as part of our long term supply agreement. The West Carrollton asset sale builds on that relationship and provides an opportunity for our POS business

employees to become a part of a large integrated pulp and paper producer with the capability to leverage the coating asset to its maximum potential. “Appvion will work closely with Domtar to enable a smooth transition of the business and ensure our POS customers continue to receive the exemplary customer service and high quality products they have come to expect,” Hodson added. Appvion will continue its focus and development efforts on its broad range of products servicing its customers in the Tag, Label & Entertainment mar- kets, the Carbonless & Specialty paper markets, as well as the newly formed Packaging & Specialty Coating Division.

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agreement between the U.S. and China, which would tackle such still unresolved key issues as China’s industrial subsidies and the role of its state-owned enterprises.

U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)A major source of business uncertainty in North America was removed when President Trump signed into law on January 29 the USMCA after both the U.S. Senate and House of Represen-tatives approved legislation ratifying the agreement by lopsided majorities. The USMCA will replace and up-date the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) from which President Trump threatened to with-draw the U.S. While similar in many ways, the USMCA makes several key changes to NAFTA. In the automotive sector, i t implements new local wage requirements and stricter local content requirements. There are also new pro- visions for digital trade, e-commerce, intellectual property protection, financial services, as well as provisions dealing with exchange rate policies and the role of state-owned enterprises. On the other hand, and on the insistence of the U.S. Administration, investor protections were watered down. The original version of USMCA was formally signed by the three nations in November 2018. However, to satisfy congressional democrats and U.S.

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The U.S. and China achieved a pause in the trade war with the announce-ment on December 19, 2019 of a so-called Phase One trade agreement. The agreement, which was signed by President Trump and China’s vice premier in mid-January, commits China to reform certain practices in such areas as intellectual property, technology transfers, agriculture and currency manipulation. China also agreed to increase purchases of certain U.S. agricultural goods, manufactured goods, energy and services by at least $200 billion over the next two years. Subsequently, China decided to cut a portion of its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, but the product list excluded the bulk of China’s paper, paperboard and wood pulp imports from the U.S. In return for China’s commitments, the U.S. agreed not to impose additional 15 percent tariffs on $160 billion worth of Chinese imports originally scheduled to go into effect on December 15, 2019 and to cut tariffs by half, to 7.5 percent, on about $120 billion of Chinese goods, which went into effect September 1. Many of these products were consumer goods that are shipped in corrugated boxes. However, the U.S. will maintain 25 percent tariffs on approximately $250 billion of Chinese goods imple-mented previously, including paper and paperboard. No specific informa-tion was provided but presumably these tariffs will stay in place pending the to be negotiated Phase Two

packaging needs. Spectro is a single-ply SBS with enhanced optics, making it ideal for premium applications that call for dynamic and vibrant images. On other machines at the Somerset Mill, Sappi produces its LusterPrint and LusterCote packaging grades; its Opus, Somerset and Flo graphics papers; as well as its Somerset Synergy ECF premium kraft pulp. In order to meet the requirements of the ISO 22000:2018 FSMS, Sappi evaluated the production, storage and transportation processes for potential hazards and implemented monitoring and control systems to prevent product contamination. As part of building the food safety management system, Sappi also followed the guidelines provided in the technical specification ISO/TS 22002-4:2013, Prerequisite Programmes on Food Safety - Part 4: Food packaging manu-facturing. As an upstream provider of substrates to packaging converters, this technical specification provides the best operating floor systems guidance for a substrate supplier.

Sappi North America announced that its Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine is certified to the ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management System (FSMS) standard. Sappi is considered a Tier 3 supplier in the food supply chain and this new certification applies to all products produced at the mill. “With this certification we are now able to provide our customers in the food packaging industry with assurance out of the gate that our products meet the strict industry standards for safety,” said Heather Pelletier, Director of Pack-aging Brands, Sappi North America. “We continue to invest in and improve our mills to make sure our products meet our customers’ needs. This is an important next step in our journey as we continue to set the new standard for paperboard packaging.” In 2018, Sappi completed a substantial rebuild of Paper Machine 1 at its Som-erset Mill. Following the rebuild, the company is now producing a range of paperboard packaging grades, including products for food end uses. Proto C1S is a sturdy, single-ply SBS capable of meeting a breadth of applications with substantial feel at a lighter weight. Proto Litho brings all the benefits of Proto to meet corrugated litho lamination

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Verso first announced its intention to sell the two mills to Pixelle on Nov. 12, 2019. At that time, Verso said the sale price would be $400 million, subject to post-closing adjustments. Verso said that it plans to utilize no less than $225 million and up to $282 million of the net cash proceeds from the transaction for the benefit of stockholders. The company also plans to utilize a portion of the net cash proceeds in 2020 to reduce its remaining unfunded pension liability.

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Verso Corporation on Feb. 10 ann-ounced that it completed the sale of its Androscoggin Mill, located in Jay, Maine, and Stevens Point Mill, located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, to Pixelle Specialty Solutions LLC. “We are pleased to have completed the sale of our Androscoggin and Stevens Point mills to Pixelle,” said Verso Chief Executive Officer Adam St. John. “After the transaction, we will continue to be a debt-free company with significant manufacturing and financial flexibility,

well positioned to enhance our competi-tive market position, effectively respond to industry trends and take advantage of low-risk, high-return opportunities that should create long-term value for

Verso Completes Sale of Androscoggin and Stevens Point Mills to PixelleThe Androscoggin mill has

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all of our stakeholders.” Verso President Mike Weinhold added, “With the sale of the Stevens Point and Androscoggin mills, we will now focus on the growth and enhance-ment of our pulp and packaging prod-ucts as well as the specialty products produced at our remaining mills.” The Androscoggin mill has the capacity to produce about 425,000 tons of paper per year while the Stevens Point mill has the capacity to produce approximately 210,000 tons of paper per year.

Catalyst recently launched its new oil, grease resistant (OGR) food grade in natural and bleached, adding to its growing line of food service papers that include bag, waxing and laminating. The new OGR paper exceeds the require-ments for smoothness, printability and reliability. BISTRO food service papers are pro-duced from Catalyst’s FDA-compliant mills located on the west coast of British

Columbia. Catalyst supplies a clean, safe, virgin fibre choice for food grade papers and offers customizable solutions for customers. BISTRO has a recognized sustainable manufacturing profile, with a verifiable, certified chain-of-custody under SFI

and PEFC programs. Catalyst is a long-time member of the Sustainable Packag-ing Coalition. “We’re proud to introduce OGR food paper to the market,” says Mark Petersen, Vice President, International and Spe-cialty Papers, “and are confident that BISTRO, backed by our industry-leading sales and customer support team, will provide outstanding solutions for our customers’ food service needs.”

BISTRO food service papers are produced from Catalyst’s

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Catalyst Launches BISTRO OGR Food Service PaperMetsä Board will modernize its board machine finishing area at Kyro mill in Kyroskoski, Finland. The rebuild includes a new reeler, winder and renewal of the reel broke handling system. The Kyro mill produces high quality coated folding boxboard and the new eco- barrier paperboard. The mill has an annual production capacity of 190,000 tonnes. The investment value is EUR 20 million and the new machinery is scheduled to start up during autumn 2021.

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The 2020 elections are

underway and — despite

a host of uncertainties

b e t w e e n n o w a n d

Election Day — new

faces will be entering

Washington, D.C., next

year. Not only is the con-

trol of the White House

in flux, but the balance

of power in the House, Senate and doz-

ens of statehouses across the nation may

change as well.

There are 35 Senate seats up for election:

Republicans hold 23 and Democrats hold

12. If Democrats net four seats, they will

take control of the Senate; netting three

seats would result in a tie and the majority

would be decided by the vice president’s

party. In the House, all 435 seats are up

for reelection in 2020. Democrats are

defending their majority after a net gain

of 40 seats in 2018 elections, leaving

Republicans to net around 18 seats to

flip the chamber. Republicans are tar-

geting a list of more than 50 seats and

among them are 30 districts that President

Donald Trump won in 2016.

Interestingly, Texas may be seeing a

slight swing back to Democrats’ favor after

decades of Republican control. One-

quarter of the state’s GOP House

delegation announced their retirement,

leaving competitive districts in flux. In

the Senate, Democrats are defending a

very difficult Alabama Senate seat after

incumbent Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL)

defeated a controversial Republican

candidate in 2017. Republicans are also

working tirelessly to protect vulnerable in-

cumbents in Arizona, Colorado and Maine.

On the Presidential front, Democratic

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Mayor

Pete Buttigieg (D-South Bend) have cap-

tured the “progressive” and “moderate”

lanes of their party respectively after

the first two contests in Iowa and New

Hampshire. With Super Tuesday loom-

ing at the time of writing, former New

York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s

massive war chest and his advertising

blitz in these key states could shake up

the race’s dynamics midway through the

campaign season.

Trump’s reelection campaign is in

full swing and is highly organized. He

announced raising $46 million in the

final three months of

2019 and ended the

year with $102.7 mil-

lion cash on hand.

Overall, he has raised

more than any other

president in his first

three years in office.

After winning in

2016 through a sweep

of critical electoral states, Trump must

mobilize his supporters on Election

Day and energize his base in the com-

ing months to match any Democratic

momentum. Three regions will com-

prise the battlegrounds in 2020: the “Rust

Belt,” (Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsyl-

vania, and Wisconsin), the “Sun Belt”

(Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina,

and Texas) and New England (Maine’s

Second Congressional District and New

Hampshire). These eleven states present

dozens of scenarios, but the most plausible

path to victory for Democrats consists of

retaking the Rust Belt (minus Minnesota),

which Trump secured for Republicans

for the first time in decades.

However, as the election countdown

continues, Congress is still facing a full

legislative agenda both in the House and

Senate. In the short term, legislators and

regulators are eager to complete their

to-do lists before the summer and fall

campaign season hampers any further

progress on their priorities.

Critically, the House and Senate

must come to an agreement on surface

transportation funding to address

infrastructure upgrades and needed

policy reforms before the September 2020

deadline. Apart from transportation, a

number of tax provisions are set expire at

the close of year. Democrats in the House

have continued to make climate policy

a chief concern, while Republicans in

the Senate will look to tackle a series of

nominations across the executive branch

and federal judiciary.

AF&PA will support policies that will

sustain our industry’s environmental

success story and ability to provide

consumers with recyclable, renewable

and sustainable products. Moreover, we

are actively supporting our industry’s

priorities relating to biomass, paper

recycling, regulatory reform and trans-

portation infrastructure.

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AF&PA will support policies that will sustain our industry’s environ-mental success story and ability to provide consumers with recy-clable, renewable and sustainable products.

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ages per truckload and more deliveries to ship the same amount of product. Sonoco Global Plastics segment vice-president Jim Lassiter said, “This would be a change for many brand owners, and we knew that having the option avail-able to provide clear product visibility for retail display would be key, so we are able to design cut-outs into the package if needed. Using a full paper blister also significantly increases billboard space for marketing messaging and creates unique opportunities for new package design. “The new paper blister runs on existing Sonoco Alloyd sealing equipment, and we’re able to furnish all tooling, along with printed card materials, to create the entire package,” he added.

Since 1932, Roosevelt Paper has dedicated itself to the needs of our mill partners, maintaining

the highest standards of service and integrity and building strong relationships based on our

performance. If you have job lots or side trim to sell, call Genny Chira at 856-303-4219

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T h e A l l o y d D i v i s i o n o f S o n o c o announced the introduction of its first, all-paper retail blister package. The new EnviroSense PaperBlister™ provides an alternative to the more traditional ther-moformed plastic blister package that is found prominently in retail outlets around the world. The EnviroSense PaperBlister is a plastic-free package that is recyclable in the paper stream and is also available with SFI Certification when requested. Because it uses water-based sealing technology, there are no VOC’s con-nected with the package. According to Sonoco, in terms of the new blister package’s overall environ-mental footprint as it relates to trans-portation and materials, the new paper blister package delivers more efficiency than traditional plastic blister products, which require three times more shipping cartons, leading to increased weight, more packaging material, fewer pack-

Sonoco’s Alloyd Division Introduces All-Paper Retail Blister Package

The EnviroSense PaperBlister is a plastic-free package that is recyclable in the paper stream.

labor unions, the Administration agreed, and gained approval from Mex-ico and Canada, to several amendments that would enhance scrutiny of Mexican labor conditions, increase enforcement of environmental protection laws, strengthen dispute and enforcement mechanisms and reduce patent protections for biologics. AF&PA actively supported the USMCA because it preserves duty-free trade in North America for industrial goods, including pulp and paper. In 2018, U.S. pulp and paper exports to Canada and Mexico exceeded $10 billion and represented about 44 percent of the industry’s total exports. Also, the agreement’s environment chapter promotes sustainable forest manage-ment and commits the parties to fight illegally harvested wood legal trade in forest products. The Canadian parliament is yet to ratify USMCA but that is expected to happen no later than April this year. Each country has to check off all requirements specific to the opera-tion of the agreement, so the USMCA is likely to take effect in the second half of 2020.

2020 OutlookWhile last year ended on a positive note in addressing U.S. trade issues with key trading partners, the reciprocal imposition of tariffs and the dis-ruption in international trade flows

such measures can cause is expected to be the narrative in 2020 again. In January, President Trump issued an executive order announcing plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on some articles of steel and 10 percent tariffs on some articles of aluminum. These tariffs are intended to stop the surge in imports of these articles following the President’s imposition of the initial steel and aluminum tariffs from certain countries in March 2018 under national security provisions of U.S. trade laws. Relations with the European Union (EU) are expected to be more con-frontational in 2020. While in 2019 the Trump Administration withheld imposing national security tariffs on auto and auto parts from the EU, the threat of such tariffs is still in play. If such tariffs are imposed, it would likely lead to EU retaliatory tariffs on imports from the U.S. valued in the tens of billions of dollars. Other unresolved issues between the U.S. and the EU are Airbus and Boeing subsidies, digital service taxes and the lack of progress on free trade talks, which could further sour the bilateral trade relations. On the other hand, the Adminis-tration is keen to reach a free trade agreement with a post-Brexit United Kingdom, expand on the partial trade agreement with Japan and open the Indian market to more U.S. goods and services.

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Oren International’s New Green DealsLocated in sunny Pensacola, Florida,

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Oren spent 2019 investing in new

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Oren spent 2019 investing in

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Streco Fibres announced the addition of

two new professionals to the company

— Austin Henry and Clara Saddi.

Henry is a native of Virginia Beach,

Virginia and graduated from Christopher

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in Finance and Business. In addition, he

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Streco Fibres Expands Team

Pixelle Names John Jacunski as Chief Financial Officer

Pixelle Specialty Solutions has named

John P. Jacunski as Senior Vice Pres-

ident and Chief Financial Officer of

the company.

Pixelle was created in 2018 through

private investment firm Lindsay Gold-

berg’s acquisition of Glatfelter’s Specialty

Papers Business Unit.

Prior to joining Pixelle, Jacunski served

P.H. Glatfelter Company from 2003 until

2019 in positions of increasing responsi-

bility, including Executive Vice President

and Chief Financial Officer, President of

the Specialty Papers Business Unit, and

Vice President and Controller.

Jacunski earned a Bachelor of Science

degree in Business Administration from

John Carroll University and completed

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UPM Says “Full Speed Ahead” for USD 3 Billion Pulp Mill Project in UruguayUPM on July 23, 2019 announced its decision to build a 2.1 million tonnes per year greenfield eucalyptus pulp mill near Paso de los Toros in central Uruguay. Besides the mill, the total investment of USD 3 billion also includes a pulp terminal in the port of Montevideo as well as investments in local facilities in Paso de los Toros. In December 2019, UPM published the following update on the progress of construction activities associated with the mill project: “The last few months have also been very exciting for us — since the invest-ment decision in July we have moved full speed ahead to start preparatory

work for our new pulp mill in Paso de los Toros. In addition to the new mill, this project includes building a pulp terminal at the Montevideo port as well as other related facilities, such as per-manent and temporary apartments and houses for construction employees, and infrastructure. “There are currently over 700 people working on the mill site preparation,

housing construction in the outskirts of Paso de los Toros as well as on pulp terminal construction and dredging at the port. “Besides construction, several initiatives have been started in line with the regional development plan. These include both professional and complementary train-ing, support for entrepreneurship as well as awareness building — for example on road safety.” According to UPM, the new pulp mill will grow the company’s current pulp capacity by more than 50%, resulting in a step change in the scale of UPM’s pulp business as well as in UPM’s future earnings.

The new pulp mill will grow the company’s

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Georgia-Pacific to Invest $145 Million in Darlington, SC PlantGeorgia-Pacific said it will make an investment of more than $145 million at its Darlington, South Carolina, Dixie plant that will expand plate and bowl making operations. According to GP, this investment is based on customer and consumer demand for these well-known house-hold products. “This truly is an investment in our customers and consumers who use our products and value the Dixie brand," said David Duncan, executive vice president for Georgia-Pacific’s Con- sumer Products Group. "The demand for our plates and bowls continues to grow as consumers value the Dixie brand's unique combination of convenience and performance.” The investment at Darlington will not create new jobs but will modernize and expand the plate and bowl capacity of the facility. The expansion will kick off in March with a targeted completion of first quarter 2022. During this time, the plate plant will continue to operate. Over time, the site will add new machinery, including a new plate printing press. A new, modern warehouse also will be part of the expansion. At the same time, the company also announced that it will shut down its Darlington cup plant by September and current distribution center sometime in 2021. Moving forward, cup customers will continue to be served from Georgia-Pacific Dixie plants in Lexington, Ken-tucky, and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.

Cepi (Confederation of European Paper Industries) announced that Ignazio Capuano is its new chairman. Capuano is CEO of the Italian firm Burgo Group Spa and Vice President of the Italian paper manufacturers’ association, Assocarta. Capuano has worked in the paper industry since 1991 as General Manager of Saffa, CEO of Reno de Medici, and his current role as CEO of Burgo Group since 2016. He has also worked in the utility sector as CEO of RWE Italy, in the banking industry with Manufactur-ers Hanover Trust of New York (now JP Morgan Chase) and in the strategic consulting sector with KPMG. Capuano holds an Engineering degree and a Master’s degree in Economy from the University of New York. Capuano will serve a two-year term from 2020 to the end of 2021.

Cepi Names Ignazio Capuano of Burgo Group as Its New Chairman

Sonoco on Feb. 3 announced the election of R. Howard Coker, as its President and CEO with immediate effect. Previously, Coker served as senior vice president of Sonoco’s Paper/Industrial Converted Products segment. Coker, 57, succeeds Robert Tiede, 61, who elected to retire from Sonoco after serving as president and CEO since April 2018. “I’m honored by the confidence the Board has shown in me and embrace this opportunity,” Coker said. “I grew up in this company, so I am deeply connected to Sonoco, its culture and all the people who have helped build it into what it is today. I look forward to working with our strong leadership team, alongside our 23,000 associates globally, to build Sonoco into an even greater company to the benefit of our shareholders, our people and our communities.”

Sonoco Elects Howard Coker as President and CEO, Succeeds Rob Tiede

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Cascades will permanently close tissue converting operations at its Waterford, New York and Kingman, Arizona plants, effective March 27, 2020. Cascades emphasized that the closures do not involve the Waterford customer service or distribution centers, while the Kingman distribution center will continue to operate until the lease ends in October 2020.

“The difficult, but necessary decisions we are announcing are part of our strate-gic efforts to improve the tissue group’s profitability and position this business for long-term success,” said Jean-David Tardif, President and COO of Cascades Tissue Group. “The losses recorded by these plants, existing market conditions, and our recently announced investments in acquiring and modernizing other con-verting units in the U.S. have prompted us to move production to our other sites to optimize operational efficiency and reduce logistic costs.” The two sites produce a combined total of 9 million cases of tissue prod-ucts annually and employ 213 workers. These volumes will be moved to other Cascades plants and filled with the ramp up of additional capacity.

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DS Smith Sees Sales of Paper for Shopping Bags Jump 400% in Three YearsDS Smith said recent figures have in-creased sharply for sales of paper for shopping bags, as retailers adapt to new attitudes towards single-use plastic. Last year alone, DS Smith’s Kemsley Paper Mill — the largest paper recy-cling mill in the UK — supplied enough paper to make around 400 million bags used by major retailers and food take-away chains. According to DS Smith, the company continues to see considerable growth from customers. Bag manufacturers require year on year increases in recycled paper to manufacture bags, with orders increasing by 400% over the past three years. In addition, DS Smith’s e-commerce packaging site, ePack, has seen an in-crease of 262% in orders of recyclable paper bags in the three months prior to Black Friday.

“Over the past three years, we have seen significant interest in sustainable solutions to a variety of packaging chal-lenges, including the shopping bag,” said said Ben Jennings, General Manager at DS Smith Kemsley Paper Mill. “Across our network our paper contains over 80% recycled content and across the supply chain, from punnets to bags, we are working with customers to find

solutions to remove single-use plastics.” According to recent studies, the global market for paper bags is boom-

ing and is expected to demonstrate further significant growth between now and 2023.

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Mayr-Melnhof Karton Names Peter Oswald as Chairman and CEO

Industrial Opportunity Partners Acquires Midwest Paper in Wisconsin

Coastal Corrugated manufactures large format corrugated boxes for various manufacturing segments.

Atlantic Corporation has acquired Coastal Corrugated Custom Packaging Solutions, a 35-year-old family owned box company in Charleston, South Carolina. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Atlantic Corporation, a private com-pany in North Carolina, is a diverse packaging and equipment distributor to consumer products manufacturers throughout North America, the Carib-bean, and Central America. The company operates 18 regional facilities east to west as Atlantic Packaging. Wes Carter, President of Atlantic Cor-poration, said, “Coastal’s products are consistent with our marketplace focus, especially as it broadens our value propo-sition to the evolving automotive market. We have looked at corrugated sheet plants before as they are very allied to our converted products offering. This one

seemed the right one at the right time.” Coastal Corrugated manufactures large format corrugated boxes for various manufacturing segments. They further manufacture custom protective pack- aging components for the automotive industry and its tier one suppliers. “South Carolina has invested heavily in recruiting automotive manufacturers to the state and our company is increas-ingly aligned as a premier partner to these facilities,” Carter said. “Coastal’s ability to design and fabricate protective packaging solutions right here in the low country brings great value and sensible logistics.”

Atlantic Packaging Acquires Coastal Corrugated in South Carolina

Valmet announced that it will supply a second Advantage ThruAir tissue machine to Irving Consumer Products’ tissue mill in Macon, Georgia. Irving Tissue’s new $470 million mill, which officially opened in November 2019, produces ultra-premium quality household paper products including soft bath tissue and high-quality paper towel. The new production line will double the mill’s capacity from its current 75,000 tonnes per year of tissue to 150,000 tpy. The new machine is part of the second phase of Irving’s capacity expansion at

Valmet to Supply ThruAir Tissue Production Line to Irving’s Mill in Macon, Georgia

The new production line will double the mill’s capacity from its current 75,000

tonnes per year of tissue to 150,000 tpy.

the Macon mill, which represents an additional $400 million investment. “The new TAD machine will help Irving Consumer Products continue to grow and deliver ultra-premium quality tis-sue paper products to our customers,” said Robert K. Irving, President of Irving Consumer Products. The new machine is planned to start-up in 2022.

Mayr-Melnhof Karton has appointed Peter Oswald (57) as new Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of the company with a contract for a period of five years. Oswald will become a member of the Management Board as of April 1, 2020. Oswald will succeed Wilhelm Hör-manseder (65), who joined the Mayr-Melnhof in 1990 and has been Chairman of the Management Board and CEO

since May 2002. Hörmanseder will turn over the position to Oswald on May 1, 2020. Oswald served as Group CEO of Mondi since May of 2017, but stepped down from that position on Jan. 10, 2020. He first joined Mondi in 1992, and prior to his role as Group CEO, served as an Executive Director and CEO of the Europe & International Division since January 2008.

Industrial Opportunity Partners (“IOP”), an operations-focused private equity firm based in Evanston, Illinois, on Jan. 8 announced that it acquired Midwest Recycled and Coated Contain-erboard Mill, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Midwest Paper is a paper mill head-quartered in Combined Locks, Wis-consin. The company manufactures and distributes various grades of paper including recycled containerboard (me-dium and linerboard) for corrugated packaging, recycled bag products, and white paper for book publishing and printing/writing applications. The mill has an annual production capacity of 400,000 tons on three paper machines. The company employs about 320 workers. Dave Mackin, an IOP Operating Prin-cipal, has been appointed Chairman of Midwest Paper. “We look forward to partnering with the Midwest Paper management team in continuing to enhance the company’s production capabilities with a focus on delivering high levels of customer service and quality,” Mackin said. Mike Deprey, Midwest Paper Vice President, added, “The Midwest Paper management team and I are looking forward to our partnership with IOP. We believe IOP’s operations-focused approach will assist us in optimizing all aspects of our business to support continued growth and better serve our customers.”

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Nippon Paper Industries in October of 2019 signed an agreement with Orora Limited to purchase Orora’s paperboard fiber-based, packaging business in Aus-tralia and New Zealand (the “Business”) for an enterprise value of AUD 1.72 billion in cash, subject to adjustment for movements in working capital and debt items. The scope of the Businesses includes Orora’s Botany Paper Mill in Matraville, New South Wales, Australia, along with paper converting, specialty packaging, cartons, bags, functional coatings and Orora WRS packaging distribution. In a written statement, Nippon Paper said, “Orora has established strong operations in Australia and New Zea-land through a comprehensive busi-ness model combining a wastepaper collecting system with cutting-edge

corrugated base paper manufacturing, highly automated cardboard production and the provision of packaging-related materials and associated services. “Through the acquisition of the Busi-ness, Nippon Paper Group will be enter-ing the integrated corrugated paperboard manufacturing business in the Oceania region. Nippon Paper seeks not only to augment the synergistic effects with AP, but also plans to further build the Group’s packaging business on a global scale,” Nippon Paper concluded. Nippon Paper expects to complete the deal during the first quarter of 2020.

Nippon Paper to Acquire Paperboard Packaging Business of Orora

The deal includes Orora’s Botany Paper Mill in Matraville, New South Wales, Australia, along

with paper converting operations.

Tokyo 2020 to Use Recyclable Cardboard Frames for Athletes’ Beds in Olympic and Paralympic GamesThe Organizing Committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games recently decided that the beds athletes will sleep in at the next Olympic and Paralympic games will include cardboard frames made from high-resistance card-board and mattresses formed of poly-ethylene materials that can be recycled. The Organizing Committee unveiled the beds in the fall of 2019. The measure is part of Tokyo 2020’s plans to be more environmentally friendly. According to Organizing Committee,

Oji Holdings said that Nestlé will use paper produced by Oji Group for the wrapper of its popular KitKat chocolate bars in Japan. The paper replaces plastic wrapping that was used to package bars. The switch from plastic to paper is in line with Nestlé commitment to achieve a waste-free future and make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025, with a particular focus on avoiding plastic-waste. As part of that effort, Nestlé Japan in 2019 announced that its line of KitKat bars (original, dark chocolate, and matcha) will come wrapped in origami paper. According to Nestlé, the miniature version of the bars will come individually wrapped in matte stock paper instead of plastic, making it possible to fold

18,000 beds are needed for the Olympic village and 8,000 beds for the Paralym-pic village. All of the bed frames will be

during the Olympics and has set a target of 99% of items and goods procured for the games being reused or recycled after-wards. After the games, the beds will be recycled into new paper products and the mattress components into new plastic products. “This will be the first time in Olympic and Paralympic history that all villages’ beds and bedding are made almost entirely from renewable materials,” organizers explained. The Olympics open on July 24 followed by the Paralympics on Aug. 25.

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the wrappers into different shapes.The wrappers will come printed with instructions for folding them into an origami crane, which symbolizes hope and healing. In a written statement, Oji Group said, “We highly appreciate Nestlé Group’s considerate commitment towards creation of sustainable society. At the same time we will maintain sup-porting Nestlé’s action as a packaging

material supplier.” The switch to paper could make a substantial reduction on plastic waste, as Japanese consumers buy roughly 4 million KitKat Mini bars daily. Nestlé expects to reduce the use of 380 tons of plastic each year with the change. Oji concluded, “As environmental statements were made at G20 summit which was held in Osaka in June 2019, the need to replace plastic with paper for the purpose of environment protection is increasing all over the world. Oji Group would like to engage in SDGs (Sustain-able Development Goals) by supply of environmental friendly products together with our clients’ actions. We are expecting expansion of the market followed by Thailand and Japan.”

Oji to Supply Paper to Replace Plastic Wrapping for Nestlé KitKat Bars in Japan

Nestlé expects to reduce the use of 380 tons of plastic each year with

the change from plastic to paper wrapping on KitKat Bars in Japan.

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paper to replace plastics has prompted a renewed effort to influence public opinion and legislation against paper product use — especially single-use items and products that ENGOs deem as “non-essential.” In addition, the disruption caused by China’s policy to restrict imports of recovered paper has created economic chaos for state and municipal recycling programs. As a result, government lead-ers are reacting through legislation to address problems that have caught the attention of constituents. The same is true for industries like plastics: putting their support behind a certain bill, can help show they are taking action to al-leviate a concern they are connected to. Around the country, legislation has been introduced that would place fees on paper bags, eliminate paper receipts, require minimum recycled content in paper products, ban paper products containing certain chemicals and man-date that paper producers pay for the cost of recycling paper and paper-based packaging products. Left unchecked, these policies would greatly accelerate the deselection of paper and increase costs for paper manufacturers. AF&PA is engaged to bring positive outcomes for members across all of these issues. A recent win was the defeat of a bill in California that would have nearly eliminated the use of paper receipts by replacing them with digital alternatives for retail purchases. This would have had devastating implications for paper producers and supply chain partners, as well as set a dangerous precedent for other states to follow. In bag legislation, AF&PA has success-fully carved paper bags out of state and local bills that aim to ban plastic bags and put a fee on paper ones, or reduced the proposed fees for paper bags in a number of states. There are many more examples of AF&PA working alongside members to prevent negative consequences of de-structive legislative efforts or regulations. While addressing these challenges can be daunting for individual companies, combating demand destruction is one of the best examples of how members can achieve effective outcomes by combin-ing AF&PA policy expertise with working collaboratively toward common goals.

AF&PA Fights Paper Demand DestructionThe backlash of environmental concern over our world’s unquenchable thirst for plastic would seem to open the door of opportunity for the paper industry. But despite paper products’ environmental benefits — made from renewable raw materials, highly recyclable and com-postable, the potential for recovered paper to be repurposed multiple times — paper use has come under attack by environmental campaigners, legislators and the plastics industry. AF&PA has mobilized on behalf of member interests to prevent legislation and regulations that would otherwise destroy demand for paper products or damage the ability for paper to compete in the marketplace. Environmental groups are predis-posed against paper consumption and the prospect of consumers using more

Environmental groups are predis-posed against paper consumption

and the prospect of consumers using more paper to replace plastics

has prompted a renewed effort to influence public opinion and legisla-

tion against paper product use.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company in January announced that International Paper has notified the Company of its intent to begin the process of reducing its ownership interest in Graphic Pack-aging International Partners, LLC (the “Partnership”). Per the agreement be-tween the parties, Graphic Packaging will purchase approximately 15.1 million partnership units from International Paper for $250.0 million. As a result, International Paper’s ownership interest in the Partnership will decrease from approximately 21.6% to 18.3%. The purchase will be funded with a draw on Graphic Packaging’s domestic revolving credit facility. At the end of 2019, Graphic Packaging had availability under the domestic revolving facility in excess of $1.4 billion. According to Graphic Packaging, International Paper has the contractual right to continue to reduce its minority

ownership interest in the Partnership every 180 days with the next potential transaction date in July 2020, subject to modification by the parties. “Our strong cash flow generation and healthy balance sheet provide us the flexibility to purchase the initial $250 million of minority interest from International Paper,” said Mike Doss, President and CEO of Graphic Packag-ing Holding Company. “The 2018 transaction with Interna-tional Paper has successfully created value for our customers and stakehold-ers while building a leading integrated paperboard packaging platform. We appreciate the confidence International Paper placed in us to build and grow the business. The transaction significantly increased our addressable market and vertical integration opportunities, while accelerating our presence in fiber-based packaging solutions,” Doss concluded.

Graphic Packaging Announces Initial $250 Million Acquisition of International Paper’s Minority Ownership Interest in Partnership

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convenience and peace of mind that comes with paper receipts.” says Greg Selfe, spokesperson for Choose Paper, a global campaign to raise awareness of the practical benefits and sustainable features of paper receipts. There are an increasing number of phenol-free receipt papers available to retailers. The most interesting devel- opment is a thermal paper without a chemical reaction. These innovative papers use an opaque top layer that turns transparent when heat from a conventional thermal printer is applied, causing the black layer beneath to be revealed — a purely physical reaction. Not only are these papers highly sustain-able, but they also provide high quality, longer lasting image life, as well as being approved for direct contact with food.

In January, the EU-wide ban on the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in thermal paper came into force. The substance cannot now be legally produced or sold on the market in thermal paper in a concen-tration equal to or greater than 0.02% by weight. For thermal paper manufacturers, this is a welcomed move.

“Long before the BPA ban, paper manufacturers have been developing alternatives that continue to offer retailers and shoppers the same security,

Satia Industries has received environ-mental clearance, subject to certain specific conditions, for its plans to near-ly double the production capacity of its paper mill in the city of Muktsar, Punjab, India. Satia Industries mill is a fully inte-grated operation, including a pulp mill, paper mill with three machines, chemical recovery and effluent facili-ties, and a power generation plant. The paper mill currently produces about 105 thousand metric tons per year of printing and writing grades of paper. The company’s expansion plans call

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Paper Receipts Remain Essential Choice for ShoppersFollowing EU BPA Ban

Satia Industries to Double Paper Production Capacity in India

There are an increasing number of phenol-free receipt papers

available to retailers. The most in-teresting development is a thermal paper without a chemical reaction.

Resolute Forest Products will construct a commercial plant specializing in the production of cellulose filaments, a new sustainable biomaterial derived from wood fiber, at its Kénogami paper mill in Quebec as well as the optimization of the mill, at a total cost of $38 million. “Our investment in cellulose filaments represents an opportunity to enter into non-traditional growth markets,” said Yves Laflamme, President and CEO of Resolute. “The cellulose filament and Kénogami mill optimization projects will create synergies within our net-work of operations in Saguenay-Lac- Saint-Jean.” Cellulose filaments offer a wide variety of uses and a number of benefits. The filaments can be integrated into commercial and consumer products from many industries, including trans-portation, construction and energy, increasing the resistance and durability of those products. The new $27 million project will create eight jobs in the startup phase slated for 2021, and a total of 23 jobs once the plant reaches its full production capac-ity of 21 metric tons per day. These new jobs will be in addition to the 200 existing positions at the paper mill. Resolute will also invest $11 million to enhance the Kénogami paper mill’s short-term competitiveness by modern-izing equipment in order to produce high-grade SCA+ supercalendered paper, allowing the mill to access

more favorable markets. The mill has a production capacity of 133,000 metric tons of specialty papers per year. The cellulose filaments will be mar-keted with the help of Performance BioFilaments Inc., a joint venture estab-lished in 2014 by Resolute and Mercer International. The extraction technology was developed by FPInnovations. The project will be funded in part by Quebec’s Department of Forests, Wildlife and Parks ($2.5 million), Investisse-ment Québec ($4.2 million) and Natural Resources Canada ($4.9 million).

Resolute Invests $38 Million in Its Kénogami Mill in Quebec, Plans Include Construction of Cellulose Filaments Plant

for an additional 100 thousand metric tons per year of production capacity. The company said finances are in place and it has already acquired ad-ditional land and ordered equipment and machinery. Saitia plans to commission the plant in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021.

Satia Industries mill is a fully integrated operation,

including a pulp mill and pa-per mill with three machine.

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Ahlstrom-MunksjoDivision: Food & Technical SolutionsLotte New York Palace, Suite #4108600 Thilmany RoadKaukauna, WI 54130Phone: 920-766-8271www.ahlstrom-munksjo.com

American Eagle Paper MillsLotte New York Palace, Suite #37121600 Pennsylvania AvenueTyrone, PA 16686Phone: 203-258-8784www.aepaper.com

Appvion Operations Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #4608825 E Wisconsin AvenueAppleton, WI 54912Phone: 920-378-3941www.appvion.com

AVERE SASLotte New York Palace, Suite #361218 La CouostoPierrevert 4860FrancePhone: +33 6 02 38 65 84www.avere.pro

Boise PaperLotte New York Palace, Suite #3825222 NE Park Plaza Drive, #205Vancouver, WA 98684Phone: 360-891-8783www.boisepaper.com

Burgo North AmericaLotte New York Palace, Suite #38121177 Summer StreetStamford, CT 06905Phone: 203-569-9001www.burgo.com

Camelot Papers Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #481118 W Burlington AvenueLaGrange, IL 60525Phone: 630-640-8494www.camelotpaper.com

Cartonsa Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #3725820 Ford BoulevardChateauguay, QC J6J 4Z2CanadaPhone: 514-585-3992www.cartonsa.ca

Catalyst Paper USA Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #4909 2200 Sixth Avenue, #800Seattle, WA 98121Phone: 206-838-2070www.catalystpaper.com

CenveoDivision: EnvelopeLotte New York Palace, Suite #4309 200 First Stamford PlaceStamford, CT 06905Phone: 203-595-3709www.cenveo.com

Charta Global/APPLotte New York Palace, Suite #5317940 S Creekview LaneAnaheim, CA 92808Phone: 626-482-5571www.chartaglobal.com

Clearwater Paper CorporationDivision: Pulp & Paperboard and Manchester IndustriesLotte New York Palace, Suite #4717 601 W Riverside Avenue, #1100Spokane, WA 99201Phone: 509-344-5900www.clearwaterpaper.com

CTI Paper USA, Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #51121545 Corporate Center DriveSun Prairie, WI 53590Phone: 608-834-9900www.thepapermill.com

Deva PaperLotte New York Palace, Suite #4401 500 rue LegerRivier Beaudette, QC J0P 1R0, CanadaPhone: 450-269-3007www.devapaper.com

Dixie Pulp & Paper, Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #5008 Box 20204Tuscaloosa, AL 35402Phone: 205-759-2600www.dixiepaper.com

DomtarLotte New York Palace, Suite #4109 100 Kingsley Park DriveFort Mill, SC 29715Phone: 803-396-5906paper.domtar.com

Dunn Paper CompanyLotte New York Palace, Suite #4509 12725 Morris RoadAlpharetta, GA 30004Phone: 810-689-3147www.dunnpaper.com

Falcon Papers & PlasticsLotte New York Palace, Suite #1512 2-A Terminal WayAvenel, NJ 07001Phone: 732-931-7001www.falconpapers.com

Finch Paper LLCLotte New York Palace, Suite #4208 One Glen StreetGlens Falls, NY 12801Phone: 518-793-2541www.finchpaper.com

GDB International, Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #5111One Home News RowNew Brunswick, NJ 08901Phone: 732-246-3001www.gdbinternational.com

Graphic Packaging InternationalLotte New York Palace, Suite #4701 6775 Lenox Center Court, #400Collierville, TN 38115Phone: 901-570-9021www.graphicpkg.com

Greif, Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #4302 5000 Austell Powder Springs Road, #300Austell, GA 30106Phone: 770-745-3707www.greif.com

Hansol America, Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #1125400 Kelby Street, 6th FloorFort Lee, NJ 07024Phone: 562-263-3282

International PaperDivision: North American PapersLotte New York Palace, Suite #4217 6400 Poplar AvenueMemphis, TN 38197Phone: 901-419-1813www.ipaper.com

International PaperLotte New York Palace, Suite #4215 6400 Poplar AvenueMemphis, TN 38197Phone: 901-419-1813www.ipaper.com

Joe Piper Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #4409 123 Industrial DriveBirmingham, AL 35211Phone: 205-492-1623www.joepiperinc.com

Kruger PaperLotte New York Palace, Suite #53163285 chemin BedfordMontreal, QC H3S 1G5, CanadaPhone: 267-637-5414www.kruger.com

Leader Paper ProductsLotte New York Palace, Suite #4408 901 S Fifth StreetMilwaukee, WI 53204Phone: 414-671-8163www.leaderpaper.com

MactacLotte New York Palace, Suite #3626 4560 Darrow RoadStow, OH 44224Phone: 866-622-8223www.mactac.com/sheets

Metsä BoardLotte New York Palace, Suite #4808 301 Merritt 7, 2nd FloorNorwalk, CT 06851Phone: 203-229-7204www.metsaboard.com

Mondi Paper Sales GmbHDivision: Specialty Kraft Paper & Fibre Packaging/PaperLotte New York Palace, Suite #3912 Marxergasse 4AVienna 1030AustriaPhone: + 436644112176www.mondigroup.com

Moorim USA, Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #42013700 Crestwood Parkway NW, #200Duluth, GA 30096Phone: 678-628-8570

The Navigator CompanyLotte New York Palace, Suite #450840 Richards AvenueNorwalk, CT 06854Phone: 888-662-2736www.navigator-usa.com

ND PaperLotte New York Palace, Suite #49011901 S Meyers RoadOakbrook Terrace, IL 60181Phone: 937-528-3877www.ndpaper.com

Neenah, Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #1025 3460 Preston Ridge RoadAlphareta, GA 30005Phone: 630-219-3326www.neenahpaper.com

NekoosaLotte New York Palace, Suite #4908841 Market StreetNekoosa, WI 54457Phone: 800-826-4886www.nekoosa.com

Pixelle Specialty SolutionsLotte New York Palace, Suite #4708228 S Main StreetSpring Grove, PA 17362Phone: 717-225-4711www.pixelle.com

Rayonier Advanced MaterialsLotte New York Palace, Suite #5011 4 place Ville Marie, #100Montreal, QC H3B 2E7CanadaPhone: 514-871-2312www.rayonieram.com

Sappi North AmericaLotte New York Palace, Suite #4308 255 State StreetBoston, MA 02109Phone: 617-423-5431www.sappi.com

Seaman Paper CompanyLotte New York Palace, Suite #5201 35 Wilkins RoadGardner, MA 01440Phone: 978-424-5809www.seamanpaper.com

Streco Fibres, Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #4111, 4115, 4211, 4315, 4411 168 Business Park Drive, #200Virginia Beach, VA 23462Phone: 757-473-3720www.streco.com

Twin Rivers Paper CompanyLotte New York Palace, Suite #5009 82 Bridge AvenueMadawaska, ME 04756Phone: 404-285-1864www.twinriverspaper.com

Verso CorporationLotte New York Palace, Suite #5301 8540 Gander Creek DriveMiamisburg, OH 45342Phone: 877-855-7243www.versoco.com

Wausau Coated Products Inc.Lotte New York Palace, Suite #46157801 Stewart AvenueWausau, WI 54401Phone: 715-848-2741www.wausaucoated.com

WestRock CompanyDivision: Consumer PaperboardLotte New York Palace, Suite #5012501 S Fifth StreetRichmond, VA 23219Phone: 804-444-6227www.westrock.com

WestRock CompanyLotte New York Palace, Suite #5217 501 S Fifth StreetRichmond, VA 23219Phone: 804-444-7516www.westrock.com

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A.J. Schrafel Paper Corp. . . . 17

AF&PA . . . . . . . . . . 16, 18

American Paper Export . . . . 19

APC Paper Group . . . . . . . 21

Boise Paper . . . . . . . . . .8

Camelot Paper . . . . . . . . 13

Copamex . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Domtar . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

GDB International . . . . . . . .4

International Paper . . . . . . 11

Joe Piper Inc. . . . . . . . . . 17

Journey Freight . . . . . . . . 17

Kallima . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Liberty Paper Sales . . . . . . 18

Metsa Board . . . . . . . . . 12

Midwest Converting . . . . . .6

Norkol . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

NPTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Oren International . . . . . . 15

OVOL USA . . . . . . . . . . .3

Palmetto Paper Trading . . . . 21

PaperAge . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Prime Converting Corp. . . . . 15

Roosevelt Paper . . . . . . . 14

Sappi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Seaman Paper Company . . . 18

Simon Miller Paper & Packaging 19

Streco Fibres . . . . . . . . . 16

Verso Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 23

WestRock . . . . . . . . . . . .5

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