Company Profile
Boise Inc., headquartered in Boise, Idaho, manufactures a wide range of specialty and premium paper products, including papers for pressure sensitive and flexible packaging applications. We manufacture containerboard and corrugated products, imaging papers for the office and home, printing and converting papers, newsprint, and market pulp. CEO Alexander Toeldte and our team of approximately 4,120 employees is committed to delivering excellent value to our customers and generating strong returns for our investors while managing our businesses to sustain environmental resources for future generations.
Committed to Sustainability
True sustainability is a multifaceted commitment. We focus on working safely, enhancing the communities where we operate, using natural resources intelligently in our manufacturing and distribution processes, and taking a stand to improve the global environment.
The products we manufacture come from renewable resources - trees - that we ensure are sustainably managed by conducting third-party audits of our fiber sources and fiber procurement processes to confirm our compliance with Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) standards. Our paper mills in International Falls, Minnesota, and Jackson, Alabama, have earned Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) chain-of-custody certification from the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood program.
Boise Inc. is a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Climate Leaders Partnership. The partnership is a voluntary program sponsored by the EPA to help companies set aggressive, corporatewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals. We have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions an additional 10% by 2014.
Businesses
Paper - 2008 sales $1,657 million
- We manufacture uncoated freesheet paper (including commodity and premium cutsize office papers), a range of packaging papers (including corrugating medium, label and release papers, and flexible packaging papers), commodity and premium printing and converting papers (including commercial printing papers, envelope papers, and form-related products), and market pulp at four mills in the United States with annual production capacity of approximately 1.5 million short tons.
- We are the third largest North American manufacturer of uncoated freesheet products, including cutsize office paper, commercial printing paper, and paper for business forms and envelopes.
- Our premium papers include 100% recycled and colored cutsize office papers, and our specialty papers are custom-developed papers for such uses as label and release and flexible food packaging.
- In November 2008, we announced the permanent restructuring of our mill in St. Helens, Oregon, permanently closing the pulp mill and two of our three paper machines. This will reduce annual paper capacity at the St. Helens mill by approximately 200,000 tons and market pulp capacity at the St. Helens and Wallula, Washington, mills by approximately 138,000 tons.
Packaging - 2008 sales $817 million
- We manufacture linerboard and newsprint at our mill in DeRidder, Louisiana. This mill is one of the largest paper mills in North America, with annual production capacity of 1.0 million short tons.
- We also manufacture corrugated containers at five plants in the Northwest and one sheet feeder plant in Texas with an aggregate annual capacity of approximately 9.3 billion square feet.
- In February 2009, we purchased a corrugated sheet plant in Sparks, Nevada.
- During 2008, our corrugated container plants consumed (either directly or through trades with other containerboard producers) approximately 72% of our containerboard production, including the linerboard manufactured in DeRidder and the corrugating medium manufactured by our paper segment.