Weyerhaeuser Company
Weyerhaeuser Company was incorporated in the state of Washington in January 1900
as Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. It is principally engaged in the growing and harvesting
of timber; the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products; and real
estate development and construction. Its principal business segments are Timberlands;
Wood Products; Pulp and Paper; Containerboard, Packaging and Recycling; and Real
Estate and Related Assets.
Timberlands
Weyerhaeuser is engaged in the management of 6.7 million acres of company-owned
and .8 million acres of leased commercial forestland in North America, most
of it highly productive and located extremely well to serve both domestic and
international markets. Weyerhaeuser also has renewable, long-term licenses on
29.9 million acres of forestland located in five provinces throughout Canada
that are managed by our Canadian operations. The standing timber inventory on
these lands is approximately 493 million cunits (a cunit is 100 cubic feet of
solid wood).
Wood Products
Weyerhaeuser’s wood products businesses produce and sell softwood lumber, plywood
and veneer, oriented strand board and composite panels, hardwood lumber, and
engineered lumber products. These products are sold primarily through the company’s
own sales organizations and building materials distribution business.
Pulp and Paper
Weyerhaeuser’s pulp and paper businesses include: Pulp, which includes the
manufacture of papergrade, absorbent, dissolving and specialty pulp grades which
are marketed worldwide; and Paper, which manufactures a range of both coated
and uncoated papers and business forms marketed through our own sales force
and through paper merchants and printers.
Containerboard, Packaging and Recycling
Weyerhaeuser’s containerboard, packaging and recycling businesses include:
Containerboard, which manufactures linerboard, corrugating medium and kraft
paper, primarily used to produce corrugated boxes at Weyerhaeuser’s packaging
facilities and also marketed to domestic and foreign customers through our sales
force and agents; Packaging, which manufactures industrial and agricultural
packaging marketed through our own sales force; and Recycling, which operates
an extensive wastepaper collection system and markets it to company mills and
worldwide customers.