The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national trade association of the forest products industry, representing manufacturers of approximately 80 percent of the U.S. paper production capacity and 50 percent of the wood building material capacity.
AF&PA was formed on January 1, 1993 by the merger of the National Forest Products Association and the American Paper Institute.[1]
Membership includes scores of companies and industry associations; among them, AbitibiBowater Inc., Boise Cascade LLC, Georgia-Pacific LLC, International Paper Company, NewPage Corporation, Norbord Inc., Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Sonoco Products Company, Verso Paper, and Weyerhaeuser Company.
AF&PA's primary work is public policy advocacy at the international, national, state and local levels and, according to the Center for Public Integrity, it spent about $20 million from 1998-2004 on these efforts. The Association also serves as the forest products industry's primary statistical clearinghouse for manufacturing, production and capacity data. An AF&PA affiliate organization, the American Wood Council, promotes the use of wood building materials in residential and commercial construction and is an ANSI-accredited publisher of wood building codes.
External links
- American Forest & Paper Association, organization website
- Inventory of the National Forest Products Association Records, 1902-1986, in the Forest History Society Library and Archives, Durham, NC
References
- ^ "About AF&PA". American Forest & Paper Association. 2002. http://www.afandpa.org/Template.cfm?section=About_AFandPA. Retrieved on 2008-06-17.
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