WestRock Commits Paperboard To Independents WestRock and AICC, The Independent Packaging Association, announced an agreement whereby the company has committed 2.2 million tons of contain- erboard and paperboard grades over the next three years to the independent sector.The three-year agree- ment, which is effective April 1, 2019, through March 31, 2022, includes all containerboard and paperboard products that WestRock produces. AICC’s Board of Directors approved the new agree- ment in principle at a meeting held in January of this year, and AICC President Steve Young, acting on be- half of the AICC Board, and Jeff Chalovich,WestRock’s Chief Commercial Officer and President of its corrugat- ed packaging business, signed the agreement on Sun- day, March 31. The agreement commits no fewer than 1,200,000 tons per year of containerboard and no few- er than 1,000,000 tons per year of paperboard grades.
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Under the terms of the commitment, containerboard includes linerboard, corrugating medium and white top products,while paperboard includes solid bleached sul- fite (SBS),coated natural kraft (CNK),uncoated recycled board (URB), and coated recycled board (CRB) prod- ucts.This is the third agreement AICC has signed with WestRock and its antecedent companies RockTenn, Kapstone, Smurfit-Stone and Solvay Paperboard. Other companies have in past years signed set-aside At the AICC 2019 Spring Meeting in Miami rep- resentatives of WestRock and AICC singed the set-aside agreement. From left ( back row ) Steve Young, President, AICC; Dale Nolden, Senior Vice President- Sales, WestRock; Kevin Ausburn, Chair- man & CEO, SMC Packaging Group & AICC Pa- perboard, Regulations & Sheet Supply Committee Chairman; ( seated ) Joseph M. Palmeri, President, Corrugated Packaging, Jamestown Container Companies & AICC Chairman; Tom Stigers, Exec- utive Vice President - Corrugated Paper Solutions.
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