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TIS: Orchids Paper Products Company engages in the manufacture and sale of various private label tissue products for the consumer market. Its products include paper towels, bathroom tissue, and paper napkins. The company sells its products under various brand names, such as Colortex, Velvet, Ultra Valu, Dri-Mop, Big Mopper, Soft & Fluffy, Tackle, My-Size, Orchids, care, and Nobel. Its customers include value retailers (dollar stores), discount retailers, grocery stores, grocery wholesalers and cooperatives, and convenience stores. The company markets its products directly, as well as through a network of independent brokers primarily in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. Orchids Paper Products Company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Pryor, Oklahoma.
SON: Sonoco Products Company provides industrial and consumer packaging products, and packaging services in North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. It manufactures round and shaped composite paperboard cans; single-wrap paperboard packages; fiber cartridges; monolayer and multilayer bottles and jars; monolayer, coated, and barrier and non-barrier laminated tubs, cups, consumer, and institutional trays; aluminum, steel, and peelable membrane easy-open closures for composite, metal, and plastic containers; and flexible packaging. The company produces recycled paperboard, chipboard, tube board, lightweight core stock, boxboard, linerboard, corrugating medium, specialty grades, and recovered paper; and recycles old corrugated containers, and paper, plastic, metal, glass, and other recyclable materials. It also offers packaging supply chain management services, including custom packing, fulfillment, primary package filling, and scalable service centers; and involves in designing, manufacturing, assembling, packing, and distributing temporary, semi permanent, and permanent P-O-P displays, as well as provides contract packaging, co-packing, and fulfillment services. In addition, the company produces wire and cable reels, including steel, nailed wooden, plywood, recycled, and poly-fiber reels; molded and extruded plastics; paperboard products consisting of glass covers, coasters, and other paper amenities; and protective packaging products. It serves food and non food, automotive, beverage, confectionery, electronic, cosmetic, fragrance, healthcare, home and garden, liquor, medical, office supply, over-the-counter drug, personal care, sporting goods, tobacco, wire and cable, household appliances, leisure, textile, and other consumer and industrial packaging markets. The company, formerly known as Southern Novelty Company, was founded in 1899 and is based in Hartsville, South Carolina.
IP: International Paper Company operates as a paper and packaging company with operations in North America, Europe, Latin America, Russia, Asia, and north Africa. The company's Industrial Packaging segment manufactures containerboards, including linerboard, medium, whitetop, recycled linerboard, recycled medium, and saturating kraft. Its Printing Papers segment produces printing and writing papers, such as uncoated and coated papers for use in copiers, desktop and laser printers, and digital imaging; market pulp for use in the manufacture of printing, writing, and specialty papers, as well as towel and tissue products, and filtration products; and uncoated bristols. The company's Consumer Packaging segment offers coated paperboard for various packaging and commercial printing end uses, such as food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, computer software, tobacco products, greeting cards, paperback book covers, lottery tickets, direct mail, and point-of-purchase advertising. This segment also produces cups, lids, food containers, and plates. Its Distribution segment distributes products and services to various customer markets, including commercial printers with printing papers and graphic pre-press, printing presses, and post press equipment; building services and away-from-home markets with facility supplies; and manufacturers with packaging supplies and equipment, as well as offers warehousing and delivery services. The company, through its joint venture with Ilim Holding S.A., operates a pulp and paper business in Russia. International Paper Company sells its paper, packaging products, and other products directly to end users and converters, as well as through agents, resellers, and paper distributors. The company was founded in 1898 and is based in Memphis, Tennessee.