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Some Corrugated and Containerboard History: Part One continued from page 52

Next Issue: We will cover and discuss Owens- Illinois, Great Northern Nekoosa, Crown Zellerbach, Southern Container, Longview Fibre, Boise Cascade, Hinde and Dauch, Inland, US Corrugated, CeCorr, St. Laurent, Westvaco, Hoerner Waldorf, and Chesapeake.

Paper. At the time it was referred to as a “merger,” but was actually a takeover. The Union Camp chairman at that time, W. Craig McClelland, had actually sold another company, Hammermill Paper Company, to International Paper in the mid- 1980s, when he was also in charge of that company. He finally retired from International Paper’s Board of Directors in late 2006. Continental Can: In 1976, CCC changed its name to the Continental Group, a conglomerate with operations in many countries, but kept “Continental Can” as its packaging unit within Continental Group. In 1987, the remnants of Continental Can became part of the United States Can Company (a subsidiary of Inter-American Packaging) Continental Group was dismantled in 1991 and, in early 1991, Continental Can Company was ordered to pay out $415 million to some 3,700 former employees and members of the United Steel Workers of America, when the courts found that the company had attempted to defraud the employees of pensions during the late 1970s. The rights to the name “Continental Can Company” name and logo were sold in 1991 and renamed to the Viatech Continental Can Company, Inc. in October 1992. In June 1998 Suiza Foods Corporation completed its acquisition of Continental Can. In July 1999, Suiza sold all of Continental Can’s U.S. packaging operations in partial exchange for a minority interest in the purchaser, Consolidated Container Company. As of 2000, the only remaining business of Continental Can was Dixie Union, a small flexible film business based in Kempten, Germany. Champion International: In 2000, the company was bought by International Paper. Champion had operated since the late 19th century in the USA and other countries. C M Y CM MY CY CMY K

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