Volume 2, Number 2
Jul 1989

News of the Companies

• Westvaco Corporation was featured in a special foldout section in the June American Papermaker as an outstanding company. There is also an article on the company on P. 31-33, "Innovation is a Way of Life at the Westvaco Corporation," which stresses its international emphasis, concern for quality as seen by the consumer, capital expenditures, and concern for the environment (see the article on dioxin in this issue). This five-mill company has four alkaline grades (seven if you count both dull and gloss): Celesta Litho, Sterling Litho, Celesta Web and Inspiration Text.
• Island Paper Mills Co. (New Westminster, British Columbia), converted both of its paper machines to alkaline by May 10. It is one of four companies in Canada making alkaline printing and writing paper.
• Allied Paper of Kalamazoo started a new life this year. It has been bought by Michael Gallenberger, president and chief officer of Performance Papers, Inc., after a Year of negotiation. For the last three years it has been owned by HM Holdings, which is part of SCM Corporation, which is part of Hanson Industries. Union workers have made wage and benefit concessions in return for 10%. of the pretax profits, and Gallenberger will put in $10 million in capital improvements.
  
  Allied makes one alkaline or neutral paper, PDQ (Permanent Durable Quality), and sells by the carload only.
• Kymmene Paper, Inc. (Elmsford, NY) distributes papers from Finland, and all four of those listed in Walden's are alkaline: Kym Art Gloss, Kym Art Matte, Kym Data Forms Bond, "Kym Offset. That name is pronounced kim in nee, by the way-
• Pfizer dedicated a PCC plant at the Weyerhaeuser mill in Longview, Washington, May 9, shortly after it became operational. And it broke ground for another at the International Paper mill in Mobile, Alabama, on May 25.
• Lyons Falls Pulp & Paper Company, which has executive offices in Walpole, New Hampshire, and its mill in Lyons Falls, New York, will convert to alkaline as of the 5th of July.
• Howard Paper Mills (Dayton and Urbana, Ohio) is expected to announce soon that it has been sold, according to an item in the June Pulp & Paper. It was sold by St. Regis to Ward Harrison in 1972, but he died three years ago and his heirs have not been active in the business. They put the company on the market a few months ago.
  
  Howard acquired the right to make Permalife paper from Standard Paper Company in 1976. It may be the most widely known of all permanent/durable papers, and is used in most libraries and archives for photocopying, storage of documents, and conservation.
• Kerwin Paper Co. (a division of Amricon) is now making all their white grades at an alkaline pH. For more information, contact James Kolosso, Kerwin Paper Co., 800 S. Lawe St., Appleton, WI 54912 (414/733-6651). (Kerwin is not listed in Walden's Paper Catalog, so the types of paper made and the distribution system used by the mill are not known at the APA office.)
• A representative of the Canadian Pacific Forest Products Ltd. wrote June 20, in response to a request for information, "Our Dryden, Ontario, paper mill converted completely to alkaline paper making in April of this year. We produce uncoated woodfree printing, copying, continuous form and envelope papers on two paper machines, one of which is currently in start-up mode. Annual capacity of the mill will be approximately 275,000 tons each year. A number of distributors in the Midwest U.S.A. will be representing our products under private label name." The distributors named are Leslie Paper, Distribix, Seaman-Patrick, Hobart/ McIntosh, Carpenter and Cincinnati Cordage.