Georgia Tech’s Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies has recently released their enhanced Paper Mills Online Database. The data once again shows the US South is by far heart of the US industry.

Specifically, the South is home to:

  • 61% of total pulp and paper product capacity
  • 51% of national pulp and paper mill employment
  • nearly 60% of all pulping capacity
  • nearly 40% of all pulp and paper mills

Pulping capacities in the South far outpace those of other regions

Read the report here

Our work directly with pulp and paper industry players like International Paper and Georgia-Pacific to improve their performance in the woods is the leading edge of a greener, more responsible industry beginning here in the South.

 

Andrew Goldberg

Andrew is an attorney who serves as Dogwood Alliance’s chief corporate negotiator and point person for large corporate paper consumers working to develop and implement environmental paper procurement policies. His focus is on forest products supply chain sustainability, corporate social responsibility and emerging market tools for forest conservation. A former Appalachian thru-hiker, he now logs miles chasing his children.