Buckman Laboratories - USA Buckman Laboratories was established in 1945 as a manufacturer of specialty chemicals for aqueous industrial systems. The company was founded on its unique abilities to create & manufacture innovative solutions to control the growth of microorganisms. The Company has a wide network of offices world-wide & is headquartered in Memphis. Their expertise spans a broad range of specialty chemicals including microbicides, scale inhibitors, corrosion inhibitors, polymers, dispersants, & defoamers. Buckman's finished products & raw materials are successfully applied in a number of industries including: pulp & paper, water treatment, agriculture, wood, leather, & coatings.

Through constant contact with customers, Buckman knows that system reliability, safety, quality, resource utilization & environmental compliance are challenges everyone faces, no matter where they are. K'Netix® is Buckman's unique, interconnected system of knowledge bases used as a worldwide resource by Buckman Laboratories associates. It is the network through which Buckman associates can share knowledge electronically-thus offering expertise, resources & experience in 80 countries.

In keeping with Buckman Laboratories' global vision, the international research & development department creates & develops products for all its associate companies around the world. Staffed by chemists & microbiologists, who work closely with the sales & engineering staff, this department plays a vital role in bringing new products to the worldwide market. In fact, Buckman has 650 patents worldwide on various products that have come from the R&D labs in Memphis. The research department at Buckman is composed of a team that utilizes combinational methods of chemistry to create new technologies, develop new products, their test standards & registration of new products with the appropriate governmental authorities, administers sub-registrations to distributors & formulators, & helps customers with regulatory issues.

Weyerhaeuser Paper Company - USA

Weyerhaeuser is an international forest products company whose principal businesses are the growing & harvesting of trees; the manufacture, distribution & sale of forest products, including logs, wood chips, building products, pulp, paper & packaging products; & real estate construction & development. It is also one of North America's largest producers of forest products & a leading recycler of office wastepaper, newspaper & corrugated boxes. In 1900 Weyerhaeuser Company was incorporated by a group of investors led by Frederick Weyerhaeuser & offices were opened in Tacoma, Wash., following the purchase of 900,000 acres of forestland. From there it has risen to figures like sales of $ 11.2 billion in 1997.

Weyerhaeuser is the world's largest private owner of merchantable softwood timber & the world's largest producer of softwood lumber & market pulp. It is also the top forest products exporter in the U.S. Weyerhaeuser owns some of the most productive forests in the world (5.4 mm acres). The company has been managing forestlands since 1900 & currently supports the largest private silvicultural & environmental research staff in the world. It also owns & operates eight seedling nurseries & 17 tree farms.

In the western U.S., Weyerhaeuser harvests about two percent of its forests each year. The reforested site will be ready for harvest again in 40 to 50 years. In the southern U.S., Weyerhaeuser harvests about three percent of its forests each year. Here loblolly pine matures earlier than such western forest species as Douglas-fir, noble fir & western hemlock. As a result, the forest growth period is shorter-about 35 to 40 years. Forestlands are generally replanted within one year of harvest.