This Survey covers the manufacture of paper, paperboard, and wood products. What companies in this industry have in common is their use of timber, or some form of timber resource, as a raw material.
The paper segment includes printing and writing paper (coated and uncoated), newsprint, tissue paper, and other paper-based products.
The paperboard segment includes containerboard and boxboard.
The wood products segment includes lumber and structural panels.
"Paper Products," "Paper Packaging," and "Forest Products" are GICS sub-industries in the "Materials" sector of the S&P 1500.
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