Our Member Companies

Our member companies are dedicated to a long-standing commitment to the use of recovered fiber and recycling. They are committed to a member-exchange of information and activities that are mutually beneficial to the industry and consumers alike. Product stewardship, benchmarking, materials investigations and education are integral to the work of our member companies and the Association.

Beloit Box Board Company, Inc.
Beloit WI

Cartones America International Ltd
Cali, Colombia

Cartones Ponderosa
San Juan del Rio, Qro, Mexico

Cascades
Kingsley Falls, Quebec, Canada

Graphic Packaging International Inc.
Marietta, GA

Greif
Delaware, Ohio

Kruger Inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Liberty Paper Inc.
Becker, MN

McKinley Paper Group
Prewitt, NM

Midwest Paper Group
Combined Locks, WI

Newman and Company
Philadelphia, PA

Ox Industries
Hanover, PA

Paperworks Industries, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA

Pratt Industries
Conyers, GA

Seven Hills Paperboard LLC
Lynchburg, VA

 

Smurfit Kappa. N.A.
Forney, Texas

WestRock
Norcross, GA

Valley Converting
Toronto, OH


LATEST NEWS

RPTA Announces 2021 Scholarship Recipients
Click here for details.

2021 Summer Webinar
On July 21, 2021, the RPTA Operating Board hosted a webinar on Brown Fiber Re-Pulping and Reject Handling Best Practices.

Presented by Steven Johnson, Applications Engineer, Kadant Black Clawson, and moderated by Dave Pearson, General Manager, Westrock.

The Webinar recording and a pdf file of the slides are available at this member-only site.

Industry Profile Study
Sampling is complete. Samples were coded for anonymity and sent to contract labs for testing. Included are 204 samples, off 62 machines at 47 mills. The 2021 Profile Study report will be published in September.

Members can access the Profile Study reports from prior years by clicking here.

RPTA Certification of Member Mills
RPTA continues the certification program first implemented in 2018 for RPTA member mills. RPTA uses a rigorous auditing process conducted by NSF to assure members and brand owners that products produced by certified mills are suited for direct food contact packaging applications. For more information, click here.

For a complete list of certified mills, click here.

UPCOMING EVENTS

2021 Fall Roundtable

Water Reuse in Recycle Mills - Challenges & Solutions

If the COVID-19 situation allows, our annual Roundtable is planned for October 6 & 7. The free Seminar will be held on October 6th at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel & Convention Center.

We will tour Greif’s Sweetwater mill in Austell, Georgia, on the 7th.  

The Roundtable registration is exclusive and free for RPTA member companies.

For all the details, including seminar and hotel reservation links, click here.

Early registration is encouraged for planning purposes. 

The RPTA Operating Board may have to convert the in-person event to a hybrid live/virtual event or a full virtual event.  We will communicate any change to registrants soon after a decision to change is made.

2022 Winter Webinar
The Operating Board is tentatively planning a webinar on Building a Training Program from Within for sometime in January. Details TBD.

2022 P-T Seminar
RPTA’s annual Production-Technical Seminar will be held in Charlotte, NC on May 2nd and 3rd, co-located with TAPPICon 2022.