Fall 2024 Paper Industry Career Fair

The Pulp and Paper Advisory Board is excited to celebrate 70 years of continued success at our upcoming meeting and career fair on Thursday, August 29, 2024. Our career fair has consistently attracted a diverse range of participants, including over 30 leading companies, more than 100 industry professionals, and upwards of 300 engineering students from four key majors: paper science, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering.

Registration is now open! Company representatives interested in participating or seeking more information on how to get involved are encouraged to contact Brittany Hayes at brittany_hayes@ncsu.edu.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect with the future leaders of the paper industry and celebrate our long-standing tradition of success!

2024 Companies Registered To Date

Clearwater Paper

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At Clearwater Paper, our commitment to people, products, and communities drives our success. With 3,800 employees across 14 U.S. locations, our associates’ passion and expertise make us a leader in tissue and paperboard manufacturing.

As a premier manufacturer of private brand tissue products and high-quality paperboard, we prioritize sustainability by responsibly sourcing renewable materials. Our dedication to creating environmentally friendly alternatives underscores our commitment to the next generation!

Our business thrives on the foundation of our talented individuals. Embodying core values like commitment, collaboration, communication, courage, and character, we foster an inclusive environment where every person is safe, respected, and valued.

Join us this fall on the NC State Campus to learn more about “Clearwater For All” from our team members. Discover how we embody our core values and drive innovation in the industry.

International Paper Co

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We are a global producer of industrial packaging and global cellulose fibers. We have 18 manufacturing facilities throughout the US, many in the southeast.

Packaging Corporation of America

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PCA is the third-largest producer of containerboard in the United States and the third-largest producer of uncoated freesheet in North America, based on production capacity. We have approximately 14,900 employees, with operations primarily in the United States. PCA’s Packaging segment includes eight mills and approximately 86 corrugated converting plants. In 2023, PCA produced about 4.5 million tons of containerboard and shipped 60.5 billion square feet (BSF) of corrugated products.

Archroma US, Inc

Archroma is a global leader in color and specialty chemicals with strong market insight, highly talented people and a long history of material excellence and expertise. Archroma is headquartered in Pratteln near Basel, Switzerland, and operates with approximately 5000 employees and 35 production sites, over 42 countries. Through our two divisions: Textile Effects (TE) and Paper, Packaging & Coatings (PP&C), we deliver specialized performance and color solutions to meet customer needs in their local markets. A company committed to innovation, world-class quality standards, high service levels, cost-efficiency and sustainability, Archroma develops technologies that improve the beauty and performance of everyday products. Products enhanced, colors enhanced, performance enhanced – “Life enhanced”.

BTG

BTG is a multinational provider of highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. Every day our people help customers achieve sustainable gains in business performance through our application know-how and industry-leading technologies. This includes world-leading rods and beds for film-metering size presses; high-performance ceramic and cermet coating blades; high-performance tissue creping doctors and doctor holders, specialty doctor blades and pulp and paper process control sensors and laboratory instruments. All of these technologies are supported with expert services and application support. Several of our technologies are also widely applied in other industrial applications. BTG globally assists pulp and paper makers in achieving sustainable gains in business performance. We accomplish this through our world-class professionals, market-leading technologies, industry expertise and a passion for results.

Cascades

Cascades is a Canadian based company that manufactures hygiene and tissue products, various packaging solutions and other fiber-based materials. The headquarters are based in Kingsey Falls, QC, Canada with various locations across the United States. Cascades mission is to improve the well-being of people, communities and the plant by providing sustainable and innovative solutions that create value.

Domtar

Domtar is a leading provider of a wide variety of fiber-based products including communication, specialty and packaging papers, market pulp and airlaid nonwovens. We turn sustainable wood fiber into useful products that people rely on every day. Domtar is part of the Paper Excellence group of companies. Our approximately 6,200 employees are driven by a commitment to continually find ways to do a better job in developing our products, improving our manufacturing processes and managing natural resources responsibly.

DuBois Chemicals

DuBois is an industrial specialty chemicals solution provider that operates in 35 countries and supports diverse industries. Our Paper Chemicals division specializes in creating customized chemical solutions for pulp, paper, and tissue manufacturers. We assist customers in improving their productivity and strive to enhance eco-efficiency by helping them make their products right the first time, reducing waste, and conserving water and energy.

ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil’s three primary businesses provide products that enable modern life, including energy, chemicals, lubricants, and lower-emissions technologies. We have an industry-leading portfolio of resources, and we’re one of the largest integrated fuels, lubricants and chemical companies in the world.

First Quality Tissue SE, LLC

First Quality was founded in 1989 and has grown to be a global privately held company with over 4,000 employees. Its corporate offices are in Great Neck, New York, with manufacturing facilities and offices in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Canada. First Quality is a diversified family of companies manufacturing consumer products ranging from Absorbent Hygiene (adult incontinence, feminine care, and baby care), Tissue (bath and towel), and Industrial (print and packaging materials), serving institutional and retail markets throughout the world. First Quality focuses on private label and branded product lines.

GAF

More homes and businesses in the U.S. are protected by a GAF roof than by any other product. We are the leading roofing manufacturer in North America, with plants strategically located across the U.S. As a Standard Industries company, GAF is part of the largest roofing and waterproofing business in the world. At GAF, we have multiple engineering roles for students during school and after graduation. We have an Engineering Co-Op program for students who want to get hands-on experience during school and an Engineering Rotational Program for after graduation.

Georgia-Pacific

Our life’s work is to help people improve their lives by making and innovating products and services our customers value. With 130,000 employees and locations in nearly every U.S. state and 60 countries, Koch companies offer abundant opportunities to improve life’s most necessary things- like food, clothing, water, transportation, and the technology. Our focus is on delivering mutual benefit: Win-win outcomes that make life better for customers and employees alike. At Georgia-Pacific, our paper products, such as bath tissue and paper towels, are at-home essentials. And our sturdy building materials make homes and commercial buildings possible. Brands include Quilted Northern®, Angel Soft®, Brawny®, and Dixie®.

Isomer Project Group

Isomer Project Group exists for one purpose – to bring great ideas to life. We were founded on a simple principal – there must be a better way to execute industrial projects. We’re a unique engineering company with a distinctive culture that most of our competitors can only dream of replicating. We’re a people-focused company that wants to not only recruit top talent, but nurture and develop it as well. We know that teams are about people that trust and care for each other, not just who has the right special skills on their resume. If you’re looking for a company that will help you grow your career responsibly instead of pigeon holing you to “pay your dues” – then come meet our team. We’re the secret weapon that turns great new technologies and ideas into world-class operating facilities.

James Hardie Building Products

James Hardie Building Products Inc. is the North American leader in fiber cement home siding and exterior design solutions. Hardie® products offer long lasting beauty and endless design possibilities with trusted protection and low maintenance. The company pioneered modern fiber cement building products and continues to invest in innovation to transform the industry. James Hardie is a high-performance organization, with an unwavering commitment to Zero Harm. The company proudly employs a diverse workforce of over 3,000 employees across operations in North America.

New-Indy Containerboard

New-Indy Containerboard is an independent, privately-owned manufacturer and supplier of corrugated boxes, recycled containerboard and virgin linerboard in the industrial packaging industry. With over 2,000 employees and products proudly made in America, New-Indy has established a perfect balance in its manufacturing process. New-Indy is the only company in the industry today that uses 100 percent recycled fiber to produce 50 percent high-quality brown paper products and 50 percent virgin paper products to serve every need of the customer. We invite you take a closer look at our joint venture between The Kraft Group and Schwarz Partners. Representatives from Carolina Container, a division of New Indy Containerboard, will also be in attendance.

Pratt Industries

Pratt Industries is America’s 5th largest paper and packaging company with more than 9,000 highly skilled green collar employees dedicated to the environment and sustainability. Pratt Industries is one of the largest corrugated packaging companies in America, with sophisticated manufacturing facilities in more than twenty states. The company operates several of the most modern, cost effective paper mills in the country, as well as a series of sheet and box plants strategically placed throughout the United States offering a wide range of creative packaging solutions. Pratt Industries is committed to recycling and the environment by harvesting the urban forest.

Smurfit Kappa

Smurfit Kappa is a FTSE 100 company and one of the leading providers of paper-based packaging in the world, with operations in 23 European countries and 12 countries in the Americas.

Solenis

Solenis is the leading supplier of specialty chemicals to the pulp and paper industry and a leader in many other water intensive industries.

Sonoco Products Company

Sonoco is a $7.0 billion global manufacturer of consumer packaging, industrial products and protective packaging provider of packaging services for many of the world’s best-known brands. We have 21,000+ employees, and 300+ nonoperative around the globe. Sonoco is proud of being voted the Worlds Most Admired Packaging Company (Fortune) for three consecutive years, and a Best Employer by Forbes (2018) as well as receiving a spot on Barron’s Most Sustainable Companies list for multiple years. We are world class in our abilities to allow employees to use their talent and skills to grow themselves, their careers and our Company.

Suzano Pulp and Paper America

We are a Brazilian multinational company with 100 years of history. We learned from trees that life is always renewing itself and that, with them, it is possible to create a more sustainable future. As the largest pulp manufacturer in the world, one of the largest paper producers in Latin America and the leader in the toilet paper segment in Brazil, we are part of the bioeconomy. This drives us to develop sustainable, innovative and renewable products made from eucalyptus, which is planted and harvested by us for this purpose.

Sylvamo Corporation

Sylvamo is a global producer of uncoated paper headquartered in Memphis, TN. We bring the world’s most iconic paper brands to market. Every day, people use our products to educate, communicate and entertain. Recognizing that paper connects us to one another and is an enduring bond to renewable natural resources, our purpose is to produce the paper you need in the most responsible and sustainable ways. The future of paper deserves a company committed to the success of the entire ecosystem. From the forests we love, to the communities where we live, to those who rely on our paper, we know the well-being of each depends on the well-being of all. We are Sylvamo, built to help the world realize the promise of paper.

WestRock

WestRock is a leader in sustainable, fiber-based packaging solutions. With about 58,000 WestRock team members and billions of packages in circulation, we have the responsibility and capability to make significant progress toward a more circular, sustainable economy. We are materials scientists, packaging designers, mechanical engineers and manufacturing experts, using leading science and technology to drive innovation in packaging. WestRock has more than 300 production facilities worldwide. Leveraging our size and scale, we work as One WestRock, we partner with our customers to innovate toward their business and sustainability goals.