| JANUARY | Boise Cascade agreed to sell the wholesale division of its Boise Office products constituting about 40% of the subsidiary’s sales. |
| Bowater Inc. completed the purchase of an 80% interest in Great Northern Paper from Georgia-Pacific. | |
| Millcraft Paper Co., Cleveland acquired some assets of Merchants Paper Co., Cincinnati. | |
| Brown Paper Co., Greenwich, CT, acquired Gotham Paper Corp., Kearny, NJ. | |
| Paper Corporation of America reported it consolidated three operating companies in the southeastern U.S. into a single market force . . . Saxon/Florida, Miramar, FL . . . Sloan Paper, Atlanta . . . and Unijax, Jacksonville are part of PCA Mid-Atlantic-Southeast. | |
| IP’s French subsidiary Aussedat Rey acquired from Stora Feldemuhle the 40% share it did not already own in Iridium, a joint venture between the two companies. Aussedat Rey sold Stora Feldemuhle its share in Papeteries Rezard, which distributes 25 metric type of paper manufactured by the two companies. | |
| FEBRUARY | Silver Leaf Paper Corp. bought DuPont’s Specialty Coated Paper. |
| International Paper agreed to buy Western Paper Co., Portland, OR. | |
| Boise Cascade Corp. sold its wholesale office products distribution business, including 13 wholesale distribution facilities, to Associated Stationers. | |
| Wausau Coated Sales acquired the label products division of Central Products Co. | |
| Mead Corp. sold Micromedex Inc., a medical information subsidiary of Mead Data Central to a U.S. subsidiary of The Thompson Corp., which will operate the company under its Medical Economics Data. | |
| MARCH | Scott Paper sold its container foodsrevice business to Trinity Capital Partners, Wayne, PA. |
| Congress Gotham Papers, Mamaroneck, NY was formed after a merger between Congress Paper Co., Bronx, NY and Gotham Paper Co., Kearny, NJ. | |
| APRIL | Badger Paper Mills bought Fox River Paper Company’s Dayton, OH paper mill. |
| Encore Paper Co. bought the former James River mill in South Glens, NY. | |
| James River also reported that Specialty Coatings International (SCI) would buy four facilities it currently leased from James and buy back its exchangeable preferred stock that James River was holding. | |
| Procter & Gamble was planning to sell its pulp business. | |
| MAY | Central National-Gottesman and an Austrian bank became equal partners in VPI, an Austrian pulp & paper trading company. |
| Badger Paper Mills completed the Howard Paper acquisition . . . Badger Paper Mills, Inc., Dayton division. | |
| JUNE | Alco Standard said it would buy the paper distribution business of Abitibi-Price, Toronto, for U.S. $282 million including Inter-City Papers, Barber Ellis Fine Papers, Price Daxion and Whitaker Carpenter, Abitibi’s paper distribution businesses. |
| A week later Alco Standard agreed to acquire Crown Paper, Vancouver, BC, Canadian wholesale distributor of industrial packaging, janitorial products and printing & communication papers. | |
| Bermco Paper Co. became a division of Gould Paper on June 1. Bermco is a long-time niche player in the fine paper market emphasizing converting and printing papers. | |
| JULY | Butler Paper said it would merge its Baltimore and Washington divisions on August 1. |
| AUGUST | Paper Corp. of America formed US Paper when it consolidated Unijax, Jacksonville, FL; Sloan Paper, Atlanta and Saxon/Florida, Miami. US Paper would have four business units -- US Paper South, US Paper Piedmont, US Paper Virginias and US Paper Converting. |
| International Paper bought a Polish white paper manufacturing firm from the government of Poland. | |
| Mead Corp. sold Ampad Corp. | |
| SEPTEMBER | Alco Standard Corp. acquired Barber-Ellis Fine Papers and Crown Paper in British Columbia; Inter-City papers, Quebec, Price Daxion, Ontario, and Whitaker Carpenter Paper, Elk Grove Village, IL. |
| Cascades Inc. said it would buy the stock of Rolland, Inc. | |
| Detroit Forming bought Form Fit Plastics and the new company became DFI, Inc. | |
| C-S Converting, a newly-formed corporation, acquired the paper converting equipment formerly operated by Cross Siclare/NY in Staten Island. | |
| Clayton Forms Paper added the Mead Carbonless franchise to its Kansas City warehouse operation. | |
| OCTOBER | IP envelope Converting Group reorganized into two divisions -- Merchant Envelope comprised of Old Colony Envelope and Union Envelope. |
| NOVEMBER | James River sold it Groveton, NH mill to Wausau Paper Mills. |
| Scott Paper sold its non-wovens business to FiberTech Group. | |
| Alco Standard acquired Weiss Bros. Miquon, West Point, PA, which became an operating company within PCA’s Mid-Atlantic SE region. | |
| Nationwide Papers acquired Little Rock Paper Co., and its United Paper Co. div. | |
| Printape Corp. of America and Kraftape Printers of America merged into a single business entity in Secaucus, NJ. | |
| “Unijax” and “Sloan”, Unijax Sloan replaced US Paper as the new name for the Paper Corp. of America consolidation. | |
| The American Paper Institute approved a merger with the National Forest Products Association and the American Forest Council. | |
| DECEMBER | Baldwin Paper changed its name to Websource and redefined its market to focus on the distribution of paper to high volume customers, end-users and printers. |
| LaSalle Messinger Paper and Whitaker, Carpenter, Marquette combined to form LaSalle Whitaker. | |
| Mudge Paper Co. changed its name to Dillard Paper Co. Dillard acquired Mudge Paper in 1988. | |
| Alco Standard Corp. acquired J & L Sales Inc., which sells, leases and services copiers & fax machines. | |