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10 Wholesale Paper Supply Companies

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Wholesale paper suppliers still represent a massive global industry, despite the prevalence of digital media. Here are 10 well-known companies from around the world that produce and sell paper products.

Procter & Gamble

U.S.-based Procter & Gamble is known for its baby and family care products, so you might not associate it with paper. But some of its popular brands, like Bounty and Charmin, are made from just that.

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Nippon Unipac Holding

Nippon Unipac is one of the larger paper manufacturers in Japan, producing virtually every grade of pulp and paper there is. Its products include tissue, containerboard, liquid packaging and other items.

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Oji Paper

Another Tokyo-based supplier, Oji Paper operates thousands of hectares of international forests, importing wood chips to Japan. Products include tissue, newsprint and publication paper.

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Svenska Cellulosa Aktibolaget (SCA)

SCA provides a massive percentage of Europe's tissue paper. Although based in Sweden, some of its other large markets are outside of the country in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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UPM

Finland's UPM operates factories in numerous countries and is a large producer of magazine paper by volume. It was formerly known as UPM-Kymmene and nowadays associates itself with a desire for sustainability.

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Kimberly-Clark Corp.

Serving customers in more than 150 countries, Kimberly-Clark is likely a name that you've heard before. Its products include Kleenex, Huggies, Kotex, Scott, Cottonelle and Viva.

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Stora Enso

Another Finnish company, Stora Enso is one of the bigger paper and paperboard producers in the world by sheer capacity. With operations on five continents, this supplier serves Europe primarily, along with North America, Latin America and Asia.

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Weyerhaeuser Corporation

Washington-based Weyerhaeuser owns tens of millions of acres of forest, many of which are in Canada. In addition to its extensive wood product offerings, it supplies pulp and both coated and uncoated paper.

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Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Georgia-Pacific has four main areas of operation, three of which are in paper. The other one is in wood. These areas include disposable paper products (like tissues and paper plates), shipping paper products (like containerboard and packaging) and bleached pulp and paper.

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International Paper

Based in Connecticut, International Paper is another larger worldwide wholesale paper supplier. It has operations in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada and the United States.

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