Member Profiles

Packaging Corporation of America

Wallula, Washington  •  www.packagingcorp.com

Built in 1957, the Boise Inc (PCA) pulp and paper mill at Wallula, WA was the first mill ever built by the company (then Boise Cascade).  Today, the mill produces more than 400,000 tons per year of packaging products for the agriculture industry, as well as market pulp and specialty paper.  Approximately 600 people work at the Wallula facility. With an annual payroll of more than $40 million, PCA is one of the largest employers in Walla Walla County and constitutes the largest share of the county’s property tax base, funding vital education, emergency and law enforcement services.

Cascade Pulp Mill

Halsey, Oregon  •  www.cascadepulp.com

Cascade Pacific Pulp, LLC is a market pulp manufacturing and sales company near Halsey, Oregon approximately 120 miles south of Portland. The company produces pulp, an intermediate component in the papermaking process, which it then markets to paper makers around the world.  Cascade currently produces 200,000 tons of high-grade pulp for use in fine paper, tissue and cement fiber board. Cascade’s pulp is produced from lumber production residuals of Douglas fir, Western Hemlock and Western Red Cedar, using state of the art technology and modern equipment, while maintaining excellent environmental protection.

Clearwater Paper

Spokane Washington; Lewiston Idaho  • www.clearwaterpaper.com

Headquartered in Spokane, Washington, Clearwater Paper has facilities across the nation. In the Northwest, the company has a fiber barging dock in Columbia City, Oregon, a chip facility in Clarkston, Washington, and its largest pulp, paperboard and tissue complex employing nearly 1400 in Lewiston, Idaho. Clearwater Paper is Idaho’s largest forest products company, contributing more than $250 million a year to the local economy, through payroll, taxes, local vendor payments, wood purchasing, plus millions of additional dollars annually in maintenance and capital expenditures. The Lewiston facility generates approximately 50 percent of its electrical needs from renewable green biomass fuels. Clearwater Paper manufactures quality consumer tissue, away-from-home tissue, hard roll tissue, bleached paperboard and pulp at manufacturing facilities from coast to coast. The company is a premier supplier of private label tissue to major retailers and wholesale distributors, including grocery, drug, mass merchants and discount stores. In addition, the Company produces bleached paperboard used by quality-conscious printers and packaging converters.

Georgia-Pacific

Oregon and Washington  • www.gp.com

Georgia-Pacific has a significant manufacturing presence in the Pacific Northwest, with major tissue, towel, paper and containerboard mills in the region, along with facilities that make packaging, building products and chemicals. The Toledo, Ore., linerboard mill has 400 employees and is the largest recycler of wastepaper in the state of Oregon. The Wauna, Ore., mill has nearly 1,000 employees who make nationally branded premium bath tissue and paper towel products used in homes every day. The Wauna mill is committed to managing and minimizing its overall environmental impact, including a major energy reduction project in 2012 which will help conserve 5.5 million kilowatt hours annually. The Halsey, Ore., mill has more than 400 employees and makes private label consumer products. The Camas, Wash., mill has been part of the community since 1883, employs 500 people and makes paper towels for our away-from-home business and printing papers for business and home use.

Inland Empire Paper Company

Spokane, Washington  •  www.iepco.com

Inland Empire Paper (IEP) has continuously operated in Millwood, near Spokane, since 1911. Today IEP produces more than 500 tons of newsprint each day for customers throughout the western United States.  As part of its commitment to sustainability, the company focuses on using a minimum of natural resources, producing its paper from sawmill waste and recycled newspapers; 100% of IEP’s final product is made from waste materials. Over the past ten years, IEP has invested several hundred million dollars on state-of-the art equipment, making it the most modern newsprint facility in the world.

International Paper

Springfield, Oregon • www.internationalpaper.com/us/en/ 

The International Paper mill in Springfield, Oregon has been in continuous production of kraft linerboard since 1948. Its primary source of fiber has always been residuals from sawmill operations  augmented with recycled corrugated containers. The mill’s approximately 250 union employees are among the highest paid manufacturing workers in the area. A leader in environmental controls, the Springfield mill was among the first in the Pacific Northwest to install wastewater secondary treatment, and installed a condensate removal system more than twenty years before regulations mandated such controls. Through the years, numerous energy efficiency projects have continued to reduce the mill’s environmental footprint.

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