The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national trade association of the forest products industry, representing manufacturers of approximately 80 percent of the U.S. pulp and paper industry

Pulp and paper industry

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 and 50 percent of the wood building material

Building material

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 capacity.

AF&PA was formed on January 1, 1993 by the merger of the National Forest Product Association and the American Paper Institute.

Membership includes scores of companies and industry associations; among them, AbitibiBowater Inc.

Abitibi-Consolidated

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, Boise Cascade LLC

Boise Cascade

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, Duro Bag Mfg

Duro Bag Mfg

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, Georgia-Pacific LLC

Georgia-Pacific

Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals. As of Fall 2010, the company employed more than 40,000 people at more...

, International Paper Company

International Paper

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, NewPage Corporation

NewPage Corporation

NewPage Corporation, based in Miamisburg, Ohio, is a leading producer of coated paper in North America.The company produces coated papers in sheets and rolls with many finishes and weights to offer design flexibility for a wide array of end uses...

, Norbord Inc.

Norbord

Norbord Inc. is an international forest products company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. It has 15 operations located in Canada, the United States and Europe, with assets of US$ 1.4 billion and annual sales in excess of $1 billion...

, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.

Smurfit-Stone Container

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, Sonoco Products Company

Sonoco Products

Founded in 1899, Sonoco Products Company is a global provider of a variety of consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging and packaging supply chain services...

, Verso Paper

Verso Paper

Verso Paper is a pulp and paper company based in Memphis, TN. The company has paper manufacturing facilities in Jay, ME, Bucksport, ME, Sartell, MN, and Quinnesec, MI. It has approximately 3,000 employees....

, and Weyerhaeuser Company

Weyerhaeuser

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AF&PA's primary work is public policy advocacy at the international, national, state and local levels and, according to the Center for Public Integrity

Center for Public Integrity

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, it spent about $20 million from 1998-2004 on these efforts. The Association also serves as the forest products industry's primary statistical clearinghouse for manufacturing, production and capacity data. An AF&PA affiliate organization, the American Wood Council, promotes the use of wood building materials in residential and commercial construction and is an ANSI

Ansi

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-accredited publisher of wood building codes.

External links

• American Forest & Paper Association, organization website
• Inventory of the National Forest Product Association Records, 1902-1986, in the Forest History Society
  Forest History Society
  The Forest History Society is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of forest and conservation history. The society was established in 1946 and incorporated in 1955....
  
  Library and Archives, Durham, NC