American Forest & Paper Association
National trade association
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The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national trade association of the paper and wood products industry.
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| Formation | January 1, 1993 |
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Chairman | F. Colin Moseley |
| Website | afandpa.org |
AF&PA was formed on January 1, 1993, by the merger of the National Forest Product Association and the American Paper Institute.[1]
Membership includes scores of companies and industry associations. Among them are Domtar, Essity, Evergreen Packaging, LLC, Georgia-Pacific LLC, Graphic Packaging International [2], 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-accredited publisher of wood building codes.