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Company Highlights
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Parsons &
Whittemore (P&W) is the parent
organization of Alabama River Pulp Company. P&W is based in Rye
Brook, NY. The first pulping line built at
Claiborne,
Alabama
River
Pulp, produced its first unbleached pulp in November 1978. The
first bleached kraft market pulp was
produced a few months later – in March 1979. Later a second
production line was added and began producing softwood pulp in
December 1991.
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In March 2006
Alabama River Pulp produced its 10 millionth ton of pulp.
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We employ 550 people with an
annual payroll of
$53 million.
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Our two
production lines produce mixed southern hardwood bleached
kraft pulp and southern pine bleached
kraft pulp, and give us the
flexibility to respond to changing markets.
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Alabama
River Pulp is one of the most productive and low cost mills in
North America. Both production lines have a combined capacity of
over 2,600 tons per day with total annual tonnage of over 925,000
tons.
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We are a global business
serving customers in some 20 countries with sales heavily focused in
Asia and Europe.
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Among the
finished products made from
Alabama River
pulps are fine writing papers, paper towels, copy paper, tissues,
coffee filters, automotive filters, and a variety of other
products.
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Our Company
Mission, Vision and Values guide and support our
focus on safety, environmental responsibility and quality.
Our employees hold the U.S. pulp mill record of 2.5 million hours
for hours worked without a lost time injury.
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Alabama
River Pulp is registered under the ISO-9002 international quality
standards. Our wood procurement division recently
implemented an Environmental Management System based on ISO –14001
and is also certified to the newest Chain of Custody standards of the American Forest & Paper
Association’s Sustainable Forestry Initiatives (SFI®) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC).
ARP is the recipient of two U.S. Senate Productivity Awards and a
National Environmental and Energy Achievement Award. In
recent years, our company has received state and national
recognition by the Pulp and Paper Safety Association as well as
the Business Council of Alabama for safe hours worked and our
company-wide safety program.
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