containerboard , also: container board

Great Northern is now a leading producer of newsprint, business paper and containerboard.

Its products include containerboard, corrugated containers, paper sacks and bags.

PaperExchange offers a marketplace for everything from containerboard to fine office paper.

The production of containerboard is the highest of all kinds of paper in the world.

Today's deal would make it the world's largest producer of containerboard, the stuff of shipping cartons.

Containerboard is made on modified paper machines that can handle higher grammages.

Containerboard, used in the production of corrugated fiberboard.

In addition, the company owns a recycled containerboard paper mill in South Carolina.

The primary employer in town is Weyerhaeuser, which operates a recycled containerboard mill.

The acquisition deal closed in May 2011, making the combined company North America's second largest producer of containerboard.

This move, which will result in a $350 million fourth-quarter charge against earnings, is designed to reduce an oversupply of containerboard.

But as the day wears on, they will most likely decide how to jettison Tenneco's money-losing corrugated and containerboard mills.

"Demand across our major products lines - white papers, coated papers, containerboard, bleached board, pulp and lumber - remains strong," he said.

International Paper's chairman, John A. Georges, said his company's containerboard and pulp business did well while lumber prices rose during the first quarter.

Currently, Great Northern Nekoosa is more of a raw material supplier of the containerboard used to make the boxes.

In September 2002, the company acquired MeadWestvaco's Stevenson, Alabama, containerboard mill and related operations.

In 1945 Inland planned a mill venture to produce Kraft containerboard from pine trees in the south at Macon, Georgia.

The firm entered 2011 with revenues of US$3.8 billion, 17,000 employees and the capacity to produce nine million tons of containerboard and packaging materials per year.

The transaction included nine containerboard mills, 72 packaging locations, 10 specialty-packaging plants, four kraft bag and sack locations and 19 recycling facilities.

Prices have fallen; for instance, prices for linerboard, a form of containerboard, dropped to $350 a ton last month from $530 a ton in 1995.

The company also manufactures containerboard and corrugated products, imaging papers for office and home, printing and converting papers, newsprint, and market pulp.

CIRR primarily serves Georgia-Pacific's Cedar Springs mill, a large containerboard facility.

Through the company's Great Southern Paper subsidiary, Great Northern Nekoosa has been a major maker of containerboard, which is used in making shipping boxes.

Containerboard, also referred to as CCM or corrugated case material, is a type of paperboard specially manufactured for the production of corrugated board.

Mondi's South Africa division manages over 307, 000 hectares of plantations and manufactures woodchips, pulp, containerboard and uncoated fine paper.