| Caraustar Industries, Inc. manufactures recycled paperboard and converted paperboard products. It operates through four segments: Paperboard; Recovered Fiber; Tube, Core, and Composite Container; and Carton and Custom Packaging. The Paperboard segment manufactures uncoated and clay-coated recycled paperboard. It reduces recovered fiber to pulp, cleans, refines, and processes it into various grades of paperboard for internal consumption or sale to tube, core, and composite containers; folding cartons, gypsum wallboard facing paper, and other specialty products markets. As of December 31, 2004, this segment operated 15 paperboard mills in Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington and Virginia. It also supplies other specialty converted and laminated products to the bookbinding, game, puzzleboard, printing, and furniture industries. The Recovered Fiber segment collects, sells, and brokers recycled paper and other paper rolls. The Tube, Core, and Composite Container segment produces spiral and convolute-wound tubes, cores, and cans for application in cloth cores, paper mill cores, yarn carriers, carpet cores and film, and foil and metal cores. It also produces specialty converted products for industrial packaging protection applications; composite containers for adhesive, sealant, food and food service markets; and grease cans, tubes, cartridges, and other components. In addition, this segment manufactures injection-molded and extruded plastic products, including plastic cores for the textile industry; and plastic cores for the film, paper, and other industries. Further, it converts paperboard into solid fiber interlocking partitions for food and beverage, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and electronic industries. The Carton and Custom Packaging segment manufactures printed and unprinted folding carton and setup boxes for paper goods; hardware; candy; sporting goods; frozen foods; dry food; film; and various other industrial applications, including textile and apparel. This segment also provides contract manufacturing and packaging services. The company was established in 1938 and is headquartered in Austell, Georgia. |
