About Our Company:
Every business has many sides - layers, levels, divisions, dimensions, multiple supply chain links. Solving It From All Sides proclaims that we understand the complexities and dynamics of our customers' business and we have the ability and desire to impact all of them.
History
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation is a leading manufacturer of paperboard and paper-based packaging. The company’s major products include containerboard and corrugated containers. Its share of the North American market approximates 18 percent for both of these products. Smurfit-Stone also produces kraft paper, bleached paperboard and market pulp, and is a global leader in the collection of recycled paper, a key raw material for its products.
Smurfit-Stone serves its thousands of customers through an extensive, integrated network of 12 mills, 103 corrugated converting operations, and 30 recycling plants. The company meets the ever-changing needs of retailers and consumers through its award winning creative and design services, high-end graphic capabilities, point of purchase displays, and growing Asian operations. Considering paper packaging is a 100 percent renewable product and is the reason for company’s leading position in recycling, Smurfit-Stone is well-positioned to meet the growing demand for environmentally sustainable packaging. Smurfit-Stone is committed to growing its business profitably, responsibly and safely, while protecting the environment, making wise use of natural resources and giving back to communities where it does business.
Smurfit-Stone is committed to excellence. In addition to consistently being the safest company in its industry, a major transformation program is under way at Smurfit-Stone to improve the company’s operating performance. As the company nears completion of this three-year program in the first half of 2009, its operations are more cost-effective, its mills are more productive, and its converting operations are among the most modern in North America. Smurfit-Stone is leveraging this enhanced operating platform to drive improved financial performance. Smurfit-Stone’s mission is to be the safest and most profitable company with the best people in the North American paper packaging industry.
The company reported net sales of $7.042 billion in 2008 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL and Creve Coeur, MO.
