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Boise Inc. was formed following the Aldabra 2 Acquisition Corp. purchase of the paper and packaging assets of Boise Cascade, L.L.C., in February 2008.
Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Boise Inc. (NYSE: BZ) manufactures packaging products and papers including corrugated containers, containerboard, label and release and flexible packaging papers, imaging papers for the office and home, printing and converting papers, newsprint, and market pulp. Our entire team of approximately 4,100 employees is committed to delivering excellent value while managing our businesses to sustain environmental resources for future generations.
We operate five paper mills, five corrugated products plants, a corrugated sheet feeder, a corrugated sheet plant, two distribution facilities, and a transportation business.
Our Businesses
Boise Paper – 2009 sales: $1,420 million
- We are the third-largest North American manufacturer of uncoated freesheet paper products with annual production capacity of approximately 1.3 million short tons.
- We manufacture and sell a range of papers, including communication-based, commodity and premium papers, a range of packaging demand-driven papers, and market pulp from our four mills located in the United States.
- Communication-based papers consist of cut-size office papers and printing and converting papers (including business forms, envelopes, and commercial printing papers). Our premium papers include 100% recycled, high bright, and colored cut-size office papers.
- Our packaging demand-driven papers include label and release papers, flexible packaging papers, and corrugating medium.
- We focus our product mix on office and packaging demand-driven papers to better align ourselves with changing end markets.
Boise Packaging – 2009 sales: $588 million
- Our mill in DeRidder, Louisiana, produces containerboard (linerboard) and newsprint. This facility has annual production capacity of 800,000 short tons and one of the largest linerboard machines in North America.
- We manufacture and sell corrugated containers and sheets as well as linerboard and newsprint. Our corrugated containers are used in the packaging of fresh fruit and vegetables, processed food, beverages, and other industrial and consumer products. We manufacture our corrugated containers at five plants in the Northwest, a sheet plant in Nevada, and a sheet feeder plant in Texas which has an aggregate annual capacity of approximately 7.3 billion square feet.
- During 2009, our corrugated container and sheet feeder plants consumed (either directly or through trades with other containerboard producers) approximately 67% of our containerboard production, including the linerboard manufactured in DeRidder and the corrugating medium manufactured by our paper segment.
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Boise Inc.
1111 West Jefferson Street
Ste 200
Boise ID 83702-5388
PO Box 990050
Boise ID 83799-0050
Phone: 208 384 7000