Industrial grades sold by RFG include bleached pulp, solid bleached board and papers and unbleached kraft linerboard and bag kraft. These grades are purchased in rolls, sheets and bales from virgin fiber paper mills that do not operate their own recovered fiber plants. RFG also buys a wide variety of grades from paper converters that include printers, folding carton manufacturers, envelope plants and paper plate makers. These various grades are sold world-wide to mills that make household tissue and toweling, recycled papers and paperboard, molded pulp food carry-out trays, plates and recycled paperboard for boxes and bags. Some of these materials are even used in insulation applications.

Another niche market for RFG is high grade papers and paperboard, which includes mill overruns, seconds, trims and damaged stock sold to packaging converters around the world. Some of the end-use products include bags, boxes, plates, cartons, poster board, photo albums and file folders. The addition of specialized equipment, such as large roll
guillotines and salvage saws to cut large rolls generated at paper mills, gives the RFG plants the capabiity to accept any size roll generated at any paper mill in the U.S.

The RFG also conducts inspection audits at manufacturing plants and paper mills to ensure that they have options to divert recyclable fiber from being landfilled. RFG has the capability to design recovery systems and install balers for these operations as needed.

Buying and selling in a global marketplace makes Caraustar a leader in securing low-cost fiber for our mills and developing new opportunities that improve our competitive position in fiber sales and trading.

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