Commitment...Craftsmanship...Customer Focus

Our Mission
Port Townsend Paper Corporation's mission is to be the answer to our customers' need for fiber-based packaging. To accomplish this goal, we have dramatically increased our productivity, established a long-term, stable fiber supply, and refocused on important markets in North America.

Customer Base
Port Townsend Paper is committed to our customers, to whom we sell unbleached kraft pulp, jumbo roll kraft paper, and kraft linerboard. We have more than 380 customers in over 15 countries worldwide, with the largest concentration of our customers in North America and Asia. Our focus in North America is on selling to converters of kraft jumbo rolls. The mill sells almost 100% of its pulp overseas and thousands of tons of kraft paper grades and linerboard annually.

Customers range from family-owned converters that sell their products within a local region to huge international companies. A small customer may purchase 45,000 pounds (one truckload) of paper per month, while a large customer may require 1 to 2.5 million pounds of paper or pulp per month. Ongoing customer relationships account for much of our business, but continued success is based on providing the products customers need on a timely basis and at a competitive price.

Logistics
To meet the needs of our customers and to keep up with production, we operate and ship 24 hours a day each day of the year. In an average month, more than 800 trucks are loaded at the mill, along with an occasional barge. Since Port Townsend last had rail service in 1988, any shipments requiring boxcars are trucked to Tacoma and transferred to rail cars.

Raw materials include wood chips and old corrugated cardboard (OCC). Almost 2,000 trucks and 10-15 barges a month deliver the chips from the Olympic Peninsula and other locations, and more than 300 trucks bring OCC for our recycling plant. For efficiency and pollution reduction, we reload as many of these trucks as possible with outbound product.

To read about our quality craftsmanship, visit our products page.

Please contact Sales at sales@ptpc.com or Customer Service at (360) 385-3170 or customerservice@ptpc.com.