Recycling
Longview Fibre manufactures a broad range of high-quality recycled-content containers, and other paper products, which are tailored from a few percent to 100% recycled fiber in meeting customers' product needs. Longview also is a substantial supplier of recycled paper to other packaging converters.
The twin state-of-the-art wood fiber-reclamation plants at Longview, Washington, provide 1000 + tons a day of one of the cleanest recycled-fiber pulps available in industry today. Longview Fibre was an early trendsetter in providing recycled-content packaging through development of end-products and manufacturing processes to utilize secondary fibers.
One of Longview Fibre's special recycled-product developments is PC Kraft paper, which contains 50% post-consumer recycled fibers. Longview is a major supplier of premier high-quality, high-recycled content paper for the packaging industry.
Longview Fibre recycling offers valuable environmental-cleanup assistance by providing a market for used packaging that otherwise would further clog overloaded solid-waste landfills. Longview Fibre purchases recovered old corrugated containers (OCC) from independent and municipal paper processors who gather containers from the public in the West, Midwest, and Western Canada. All bales of OCC are shipped to the Longview recycling facilities by rail and truck.
Our advanced technology enables all 6 paper machines at the Longview mill to make recycled-paper products. More than two thousand primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary cleaners and screening systems are involved in the recycled pulp cleansing. The large recycling complex at Longview produces about 25 - 30 percent of the Longview mill's pulp supply, with the recycled fibers blended with virgin fibers in an intricate process that retains proper strength and appearance characteristics in end-products.
Longview Fibre continues to be prominent in closed-loop paper recycling, converting recovered waste into new paper and containerboard for boxes, and other needed products.
