Company Profile
NewPage Corporation
Company Overview
NewPage Corporation is ranked among the top five companies in 2008 in the Forest and Paper Products sector of Fortune magazine's annual report of "America's Most Admired Companies."
NewPage also was noted among the top eleven most admired companies in the State of Ohio. NewPage ranked 820 in the 2007 list of Fortune 1,000 companies.
NewPage Corporation, headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity with more than 4.3 billion in net sales.
Our product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered and specialty papers. These papers are used for corporate annual reports, high-end advertising brochures, magazines, catalogs, books, coupons, inserts, packaging applications and direct mail advertising.
NewPage owns a total of 12 paper mills operating 26 paper machines located in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nova Scotia, and Wisconsin.
Company History
Two of the mills can trace their roots to the West Virginia Paper Company (Westvaco) that was established in 1888 by William Luke on 50 acres (202,000 m²) of land along the Potomac River in an area known as "West Piedmont" (now Luke, Maryland). The mill in Luke remains a major economic factor in the area and its impact straddles the river into Beryl, West Virginia and Piedmont, WV.
In 2005, the Luke plant and the rest of MeadWestvaco's Printing and Writing Paper business were sold to investment firm Cerberus Capital Management for about $2.3 billion to form NewPage Corporation. NewPage originally constituted 5 pulp and paper manufacturing in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio. In April 2006, NewPage sold their carbonless operations located in Ohio for $84 million to global specialty papermaker P. H. Glatfelter Company, based in York, Pennsylvania. In 2007, NewPage Corporation purchased the North American assets of Stora Enso which included mills in Wisconsin and Nova Scotia.
NewPage Corporation's headquarters building in Miamisburg was the first structure in Ohio to receive a "Green Globes" certification for its sustainability, energy efficiency, low water consumption and employee environment.
Corporations across the United States rely on our paper to conduct business, communicate messages and market products. And because we know these corporations trust us to make the best decisions when it comes to paper, we know that they also trust us to make the best decisions when it comes to our stewardship of the environment, the safety and health of our employees, and our use of renewable resources.
At NewPage, we're proud of our commitment to the environment. We see our decisions to protect our natural resources as a way to make us leaders in the paper industry. We hope you agree.
We conduct business in a responsible manner by minimizing our impact on the environment and ensuring the sustainability of our manufacturing operations. We are proud of the fact that each step in the production of our paper is environmentally friendly.
Notable Clients
Heidelberg USA
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
NewPage has established a unique relationship with Heidelberg USA that has afforded us the position of being the "Coated Paper of Choice" in the Heidelberg demonstration center in Atlanta, GA. In addition, NewPage is also the "Coated Paper of Choice" in Heidelberg's booth at this fall's Graph Expo, where Heidelberg showcases the printing performance of their equipment to prospective buyers and customers.
Heidelberg has also selected Signature True® as their paper of choice for one of their quarterly publications distributed to approximately 25,000 printers and customers across North America.