American Forest & Paper Association

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American Forest & Paper Association
FormationJanuary 1, 1993;33 years ago (1993-01-01)
Chairman
F. Colin Moseley
Website afandpa.org
Congressman Bruce Westerman speaks at an AFPA event in 2020. Bruce Westerman speaks at American Forest & Paper Association event - 2020.jpg
Congressman Bruce Westerman speaks at an AFPA event in 2020.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national trade association of the paper and wood products industry.

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AF&PA was formed on January 1, 1993, by the merger of the National Forest Product Association and the American Paper Institute. [1]

Membership includes scores of companies and industry associations. Among them are Domtar, Essity, Evergreen Packaging, LLC, Georgia-Pacific LLC, Graphic Packaging International [2] , Green Bay Packaging Inc., Greif, Inc., International Paper Company, Packaging Corporation of America, Pratt Industries, Inc., Resolute Forest Products, Sappi North America, Sonoco Products Company and WestRock 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 to 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.

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References

  1. "About AF&PA". American Forest & Paper Association. 2002. Archived from the original on October 15, 2007. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  2. "Robbert Rietbroek Joins AF&PA". Graphic Packaging International. 2026. Retrieved 2026-01-30.