Volume 3, Number 2
May 1990
Company News
- GK Carbonate, in a joint venture with Boise Cascade, has built a
precipitated calcium carbonate plant onsite at B-C's St. Helens,
Oregon, paper mill. The 60,000 tpy plant will supply both that mill
(fine paper capacity something less than 700 tons/day) and B-C's 290
ton/day mill in Vancouver, Washington,
- Pfizer and Weyerhaeuser Paper have broken ground for an onsite
PCC plant in Plymouth, N.C., which should be in production by
August.
- International Paper of Purchase, New York, has acquired Dixon
Paper Co. of Denver, a wholesaler and retailer of fine papers,
graphic art supplies and industrial paper products.
- Willamette Industries will buy Penntech Papers, according to the
American Papermaker for May, and plans to operate
Penntech as a separate subsidiary. Last July Penntech had converted
20%. of its total output to alkaline product, and was planning to
increase that percentage. Both of Willamette's fine paper mills
(Hawesville, Ky. and the one under construction in Bennetsville, So.
Carol.) are slated for conversion to alkaline production.
- A preliminary report of the 1987 of manufactures is now
available. (For ordering information on the section covering pulp,
paper, and board mills, see Literature section.) In its five pages
of statistics, there is data going back to 1972 on number of mills
and companies, employees, value added, cost of materials, value of
inventory and so on. The figures on number of mills and of large
mills give an overview of the tendency to centralization in the
paper industry, especially in the period 1977-82, when a lot of
smaller mills either closed down or were bought up by larger
companies.
Figure 1. U.S. paper mills. "Large mills" are those with 20 or
more employees.
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