About the PRC
Our Mission
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The Paper Recycling Coalition (PRC) was formed in 1990 to educate policy leaders, regulators, and others about the 100% recycled paperboard industry. We meet regularly with Members of Congress and their staff as well as government agency staff. We work closely with environmental groups and other industry organizations to advise them of our industry’s interests and concerns. We conduct tours of recycled paperboard facilities to give regulators, legislators, and the media a close-up view of our operations. We also testify before Congress and regulatory agencies on issues of importance to our industry.
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Our Members
Members of our coalition are leaders in recycling. We are true recyclers—the companies that take old materials and use them to make new products. Through paper collection programs, paper mills, and manufacturing facilities throughout the United States, coalition members manufacture 100% recycled paperboard that is turned into a wide array of products. From cereal boxes and mailing tubes to bookcovers and puzzles, these 100% recycled paperboard products are a part of our every day lives. Learn more about 100% recycled paperboard and how we make it.
Members of the coalition include the following companies:
Altivity Packaging LLC, Formed in June 2006 after Texas Pacific Group acquired Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation Consumer Packaging business. Altivity Packaging then merged with Field Container Company, LP in August of 2006. Headquartered in the Chicago area, Altivity is the largest privately held producer of folding cartons and hold a leading market position in the coated-recycled boxboard and bag packaging. Altivity employees over 8,500 people in North America and Mexico, operating six recycled boxboard mills and 53 consumer packaging facilities in North America.
The Newark Group, is one of the world's leading manufacturers and converters of recycled boxboard. The company has recovered paper operations worldwide and is one of a select group of companies with recycled paperboard mills and converting facilities in both North America and Europe. The addition of the Newark America Mill in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, which is the world's newest recycled paperboard mill, provides their customers a unique graphic board manufacturing and service organization on two continents. The continued growth at Newark Paperboard Products has created a leading North American manufacturer of paperboard tubes, cores and related finishing supplies. Newark Solidboard Products is a growing source of food transport packaging in both Europe and the United States.
Newman and Company, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, opened its first recycled paperboard mill in 1918. It currently operates a facility producing high-quality recycled paperboard in Pennsylvania.
The Rock-Tenn Company of Norcross, Georgia employs 9,000 people in 64 mills located in 23 states. Rock-Tenn has been helping to protect America’s environment since the 1890s and is a leading producer of 100% recycled paperboard, offering a complete line of clay-coated, uncoated, specialty, and laminated paperboards.
White Pigeon Paper Company, has been a premier manufacturer of recycled paperboard for folding cartons for almost a century. Headquartered in White Pigeon, Michigan, the company uses the highest quality recovered paper to produce 65,000 tons of 100% recycled paperboard annually.
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PRC Facilities Are Located Throughout the United States
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How to Contact the Paper Recycling Coalition
Paper Recycling Coalition
c/o Colling Swift and Hynes
1331 F Street, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20004
Tel: (202) 347-8000
Fax: (202) 347-8920
For more information, please contact:
Fran McPoland at (202) 347-8000
Terese Colling at (202) 347-8000
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