The Abbey Newsletter

Volume 17, Number 3
Aug 1993


100% Alkaline or Neutral paper companies in the U.S.

(italics=mechanical or semichemical pulp)
Company # Mills Making Fine Paper Capacity (tons/day)
Badger 2 375
Consolidated 1 1100
Cross Pointe 2 675
Eastern 1 200
E.B. Eddy 1 270
Esleek (Neutral) 1 20
Finch Pruyn 1 600
Fletcher 1 85
Glatfelter (incl. Ecusta) 3 1215
Hammermill (exc. Strath) 5 2098
Lyons Falls 1 220
Millers Falls (div. of Strath) 1 50
Mohawk 2 230
Penntech (div. of Willamette) 1 400
Potlatch/Northwest 2 935
Potsdam 1 ?
Repap Wisconsin 1 1140
Riverside 1 120
Simpson Pasadena 1 750
Simpson Plainwell 1 260
Stora Papyrus Newton Falls 1 400
Ward (div. of Strathmore) 1 100
Weyerhaeuser 3 1850
Whiting, George A. 1 28
Willamette 2 1150


This table was compiled as an aid for people who are looking for alkaline paper, and need to know which companies they can buy from with confidence, i.e., which companies do not produce acidic printing or writing papers at all. The table has been maintained for several years in the Abbey Publications office, in hopes that one day it would be accurate enough to publish. It is probably as accurate now as it ever will be, though it is probably not perfect.

One way to start a search for alkaline printing or writing paper is to look up nearby paper distributors in the Yellow Pages, and ask them which of the above companies' papers they carry. (Revised and reprinted from the Sept. Alkaline Paper Advocate.)

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