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The United
Steelworkers locals 608 & 712 are the employees of Clearwater Paper
Corporation. The mill is located just east of the town
of Lewiston, Idaho. It has been there since the early 1900's
when Potlatch started it. Originally Lumber then adding a pulp mill,
paper board and then a tissue machine.
In December of
2008 the original company, Potlatch Corporation - or PFI (Potlatch
Forests Incorporated) as it was once called for many past decades,
spun ''us' off as a stand alone manufacturing business. 'Us'
being the Consumer Products & Pulp and Paper manufacturing portion
of their wood products empire. This newly formed business is
now known as
CLEARWATER PAPER
CORPORATION.
Clearwater Paper became its own
company at the end of December and posted a $13.6 million profit in
its first quarter.
Clearwater Paper made $182 million in its first year as a
stand-alone company and was able to restructure debt ahead of
schedule it assumed when it separated from Potlatch Corp. at the end
of 2008.
Potlatch otherwise
kept all the other lumber
mills and Plywood/OSB plants along with their Timber-land
holdings.
CLEARWATER PAPER
CORPORATION employees
roughly 1,100 Local 608 & 712 members in its Consumer Products
(Tissue) P&P works in Lewiston as well as about 400 IAM workers in
its Wood Products Mill at this site which is
WWPA issue number
52.
Consumer
Products (Tissue)
The consumer
products segment manufactures and sells
household tissues,
including paper towels, napkins, bathroom tissue and facial
tissue. It produces over half of the store-brand, household
tissues sold in grocery stores in the United States.
The consumer
products division produces through-air-dried (TAD)
paper towels,
as well as premium and value brand towels. It makes
napkins
in ultra, two-ply and three-ply dinner napkins, plus value
one-ply luncheon napkins. The
bathroom tissue
produced is mostly two-ply ultra, though other types are
manufactured and sold. The
facial tissues
produced by the division include ultra lotion facial
tissues. Clearwater primarily produces ultra and premium
qualities of the tissue it produces, though it does
manufacture lower grades as well.
The division has
three
Tissue Paper
machines and Tissue converting at the
company's facilities in
Lewiston, Idaho,
one Tissue
machine and converting plant
at the Las Vegas facility in Nevada
as well as a Tissue converting facility in Elwood, IL.
And a
facility with under construction in North Carolina.
The total cost for the new facility is expected to be
approximately $260 to $280 million, which includes the two
new converting lines previously announced in February 2010.
The total cost figure includes the paper machine, seven
converting lines, buildings to house the paper machine and
converting lines and land. The company expects to fund the
project primarily with existing cash on the balance sheet
and future cash flow from operations. It is expected that
capital will be deployed over the next five years, with
approximately 80 percent to be split evenly between 2011 and
2012
Pulp and
Paperboard
The company's
pulp and paperboard segment manufactures bleached
paperboard,
primarily for the packaging industry, as well as solid
bleach sulfate (SBS) paperboard. SBS board is a type of
paperboard that is used in the production of
folding cartons,
liquid packaging,
plates, cups and some commercial printing applications.
The pulp and
paperboard segment also produces
softwood
market pulp, which is used as the primary raw material in
the production of a wide variety of paper products, and
slush pulp (excess or waste pulp), which it sends to the
consumer products segment. To make pulp for the manufacture
of all its products, the division uses several species of
pine
and
fir
trees, as well as high-quality
cedar
products[3].
The Pulp
and Paper portion of this mix includes not only the Pulp
Mill and two Paper Board machine here in Lewiston and a Pulp
Mill, Paper Board machine and Paper Board plant in Crosset,
AK. It markets the brands Ancora and Candesce.
Wood
Products
The wood
products segment mainly manufactures appearance grade cedar and
dimensional
framing
lumber
products. It's cedar products include appearance grade boards,
siding and trim, and the dimensional lumber it produces include both
glued and profile lumber, used for two-inch dimensional framing,
industrial timbers and
railroad ties.
On September 17th , 2010
Clearwater Paper Corp. announced
that it acquired Cellu Tissue Holdings Inc. a 10 site corporation
with various type tissue machines and converting machines that
produce many products from consumer tissue products, food industry
wrapping, hospital support tissue products to foam picnic plates.
So it may expand into markets not yet tried. More on that as
information is received.
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