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in North Carolina and South Carolina from 1980-1982. Han- cock worked as a co-op at the Forest Research Institute in New Zealand in 1983 and at the University of Freiburg in Germany in 1984. He joined Westvaco as a forester in 1984, was promoted to Production Logging Supervisor in 1993, Local District Procurement Supervisor in 1997, and Operations Manager in 2016. He has served as the interim Fiber Supply Manager at Covington since January 2022.
ment co-op from May 2019 to January 2020 at Printpack in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cory Booth has accepted the position of Process Engi- neer in the Analytical department. He is currently assigned
to the E&I department, where he will support safety, reliability, and cost improvement initiatives across the entire mill.
AF&PA Releases November Packaging Papers Report
Booth earned his high school diploma from James Monroe High School in Lindside, West Virginia, in 2018 and his B.S. in Electrical Engi- neering from Bluefield State College this year. He interned with American Mine Research in Rocky Gap in 2021. John Hancock has accepted the position of Regional Fiber Supply Manager for the Covington mill. Hancock Cory Booth
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) has released its November 2022 Packaging Papers Monthly report. Total packaging papers & specialty packaging ship- ments in November decreased nine percent compared to November 2021. They were down three percent when compared to the same 11 months of 2021. The bleached packaging papers operating rate was 81.7 percent, down 2.8 points from November 2021 and down 4.1 points year-to-date. Shipments of unbleached bag & sack paper were 81,200 short tons for the month of November, down 7.9 percent from November 2021. The complete report can be purchased by visiting www.afandpa.org .
will support the continued alignment between the Covington fiber supply operations and the eastern Virginia and North Carolina fiber supply op- erations at West Point, Hopewell, and Roanoke Rapids. Hancock received his B.S. in For- est Management from Virginia Tech
John Hancock
in 1984, and his MBA from Averett College in 1991. He worked as a forest technician co-op for International Paper
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