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History

Our experience is grounded in steady growth and meeting the market's needs.
Caraustar was founded in 1938 as Carolina Paper Board Corporation. Our name has its origin in our history: it’s a combination of Carolina Paper Board (our first facility), Austell Paper Board (our second mill) and Star Paper Tube (our first tube facility) … Car + Au + Star.

Vision, Mission, Values

We've built our business around our vision, mission and values. These are not just words, we stand by them and they are part of our everyday lives.

Vision

The first choice for recycled paperboard and packaging solutions.

Mission
Provide outstanding value through innovative products and services.

Values
An uncompromised commitment to:

• Work safely
• Provide superior customer service
• Attract, develop and retain the best people
• Demonstrate honesty, integrity and responsibility
• Continuously pursue excellence

Packaging Solution Center

Why choose the Packaging Solution Center? Proven reliability, focus on your needs and consistently beating your time frame: that's what our customers say about the Packaging Solution Center. Our team will guide you through all the steps in creating your packaging -- from developing structurally engineered cartons to generating prototypes, creative design, pre-press and sustainable solutions.

Services

Structural Design

From product development to the shelf, our structural design group works with your packaging professionals and production team to ensure your packaging functions the way you have envisioned. Our team uses our cloud based Design Access system to accelerate your design needs, allowing faster delivery of packaging prototypes, trial samples and packaging line start-up assistance.

Creative

The Packaging Solution Center is experienced in working with brand owners and your marketing group to develop new products or extend existing product lines. We collaborate through the design brief process, building a clear view of your needs, ensuring we create the visual impression you want for your product in the shortest time frame.

Pre-Press

With over 50 years of experience, our team’s roots are deeply planted in color separation for the packaging industry. Since our beginning, we have had a passion for technology. Today, we continue to match our team’s experience with state-of-the-art pre-press production tools to ensure the quality and print performance you demand.

Custom Solutions

Speed to market is critical. Providing solutions for your packaging needs and consistently beating your timeline is what drives the team at the Packaging Solution Center. Our team can create 3D renderings, full color prototypes, market samples, short runs and production runs from one to one million cartons. Sustainable solutions, paperboard solutions -- not a problem, just ask.​

Recycling is our life!

Caraustar recycling services collect, sort and process over 4 million tons of waste paper for re-use each year. In environmental terms, that is 60 million trees saved.
We handle all grades of recycled paper, cardboard, mixed papers, office paper waste, magazines and books. Furthermore, Caraustar recycles a range of other household and industrial materials including plastics, metals and e-waste.

Recycling Audits

A recycling audit is one of the first steps in starting a recycling program. Caraustar will determine where your waste is being generated, in what quantities, and whether or not it can be reduced, reused or recycled. Then, we determine what steps you should take in order to reduce waste costs and thereby increase revenue.Next, we can help you create a recycling program that suits the needs of your business. We'll assist you in educating your employees and provide you with regular progress reports.

Pre-Consumer Materials Recycled

Grades are cited per the ISRI Scrap Specifications Circular.

• Boxboard - Consists of new cuttings of paperboard used in the manufacture of folding cartons, set-up boxes and similar boxboard products. The scrap is generated at facilities that mainly manufacture food cartons as well as other cartons, predominantly for display in consumer goods stores.

• Double Lined Kraft - Consists of new corrugated cuttings with either test or kraft liners. This is the scrap generated at box manufacturers.

• Rolls/Stock Lot - Kraft linerboard, kraft bag paper, white top linerboard, corrugating medium, file folder, bleached paper, bleached paperboard and pulp are sold for repulping and stocklot converting. Many of the sources of these stocklot grades are Caraustar core customers and recycling paper customers. We complete the loop by supplying cores and paper for recycling to mills, and in return, we purchase rolls and sheets back from these mills. Other sources of job lot include converters, printers, distribution centers and warehouses that sell obsolete, rejected and damaged fully formed boxes, roll and sheet stock. The recycling centers also purchase obsolete folding cartons, bags and any paper-based packaging materials.

• Salvage - Caraustar has over 70 years’ experience in salvage paper recovery of damaged paper, paperboard and pulp. The company purchases damaged paper from paper mills, converters, truckers, railroads, shipping lines and warehouses. The Recycling Group works with salvors, adjusters, insurance companies, marine surveyors and brokers to ensure prompt inspection, pricing and removal of damaged paper. Common causes of damaged paper include hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, sprinkler breaks and fires.

• High Grades - Consists of grades that may be used by a printer or envelope manufacturer.

Post-Consumer Materials Recycled

• Old Corrugated Containers - Consists of corrugated containers having either test or kraft liners. Used cardboard boxes.

• Old Newspapers - This grade is generated from municipal recycling programs, individuals and printers.

• Cores - Consists of paper cores made from either recycled paperboard and/or linerboard, and single or multiple plies. Metal or plastic end caps, wood plugs and textile residues are not acceptable in this grade.

• Mixed Paper - Consists of a clean, sorted mixture of various qualities of paper not limited as to type of fiber content.

• Sorted Office Paper - Consists of paper, as typically generated by offices, containing primarily of white and colored groundwood-free paper, free of unbleached fiber. May include a small percentage of groundwood computer printout and facsimile paper.

• Books - Consists of any types of new or used hard and soft cover books.

• Commercial Single Stream - Our facilities collect all non-wet waste from generators, including corrugated, office paper, aluminum cans and plastic bottles.

 Exporting

Caraustar sells recovered fiber and stocklot to mills and converters in over 30 countries. The grades we export range from bales of mixed paper up to virgin kraft linerboard rolls. We use export sales to complement our domestic marketing, which allows us to consistently sell fiber at the highest price for our suppliers while guaranteeing prompt service.

Recycling Audits

A recycling audit is one of the first steps in starting a recycling program. Caraustar will determine where your waste is being generated, in what quantities, and whether or not it can be reduced, reused or recycled. Then, we determine what steps you should take in order to reduce waste costs and thereby increase revenue.Next, we can help you create a recycling program that suits the needs of your business. We'll assist you in educating your employees and provide you with regular progress reports.