The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national
trade association
A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific Industry (economics), industry. Through collabor ...
of the paper and wood products industry.
AF&PA was formed on January 1, 1993, by the merger of the
National Forest Product Association and the
American Paper Institute.
Membership includes scores of companies and industry associations. Among them are Domtar, Essity, Evergreen Packaging, LLC, Georgia-Pacific LLC, Graphic Packaging International, 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
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organiz ...
-accredited publisher of wood
building code
A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for construction objects such as buildings and non-building structures. Buildings must conform to the code to obtain planning permis ...
s.
See also
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Forests of the United States
It has been estimated that before European settlement, forests in the United States mainland covered nearly . Since the mid-1600s, about of forest have been cleared, primarily for agriculture during the 19th century.
As of 2016, roughly 36.21% ...
References
External links
American Forest & Paper Association organization website
in the
Forest History Society
The Forest History Society is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of forest and conservation history."Forest History Society." Echo Project. Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. http://echo.gmu. ...
Library and Archives, Durham, NC
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Pulp and paper companies of the United States
Forest products companies of the United States
Forestry organizations
Trade associations based in the United States