Company: History

In 1969, a small, pilot plant in Beaverton, Oregon that specialized in producing long-run, continuous computer forms opened. Over the years, an expanding network of office and distribution centers mandated the development of additional forms manufacturing plants across the United States.

The concept of vertical integration (when a company grows its own trees to manufacture products, makes other products from leftover fiber and converts or adds value to those products) was emphasized as part of a groundbreaking for a fine paper machine in Hawesville, Kentucky in 1980. This machine produced forms bond, which was converted by the company's existing forms plants. The division soon expanded into the cut sheet market with its first cut sheet converting center located in Owensboro, Kentucky. Additional facilities were built or acquired over the years that followed.