About the Paperboard Mills in Illinois Market Research Report
What’s Included in the Paperboard Mills in Illinois Market Research Report
Definition of the Paperboard Mills in Illinois?
This industry processes pulp, used paper and old corrugated containers (OCC) into various paperboard varieties, including unbleached and bleached packaging paperboard, coated paperboard, industrial converting paperboard and recycled paperboard. The paperboard this industry produces is sold mainly to cardboard box and container manufacturers and to a range of consumer and industrial product producers for further processing.
What’s included in the Paperboard Mills in Illinois?
The Paperboard Mills in Illinois includes producing unbleached and bleached packaging paperboard, producing recycled paperboard, producing semichemical paperboard and producing corrugated medium and linerboard. Related terms covered in the Paperboard Mills in Illinois industry report includes any type of paperboard that is used in the production of corrugated cardboard, including linerboard and corrugated medium, a white paperboard made from pulp containing no less than 80.0% bleached virgin wood fibers, a paperboard made from pulp containing no less than 80.0% wood fibers produced by the sulfate (kraft) process, a paperboard made out of a combination of recycled fibers from various grades of paper stock, with the larger portion of the pulp being recycled fibers and the lesser amount being virgin fibers, the solid outer sides of corrugated cardboard, a toxic byproduct produced by the kraft process when wood is converted into wood pulp and then into paper, paperboard made from pulp containing more than 75.0% virgin wood fibers, most of which is produced by chemical treatment combined with mechanical refining and a rigid packaging material made from multiple layers of paper, typically with a fluted (wavy) inner layer sandwiched between two flat outer layers.
Industry Performance of the Paperboard Mills industry in Illinois
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Paperboard Mills in Illinois
#35 in Highest Revenue 0.2% of state's GDPRevenue (2025)
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Paperboard Mills in the US
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Key Drivers of the Paperboard Mills industry in Illinois
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Illinois Economic Indicators
Population
Private Investment in Non-Residential Construction
New Business Formation
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US Key External Drivers
World price of wood pulp
Price of paper
Consumer spending
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County Data of the Paperboard Mills industry in Illinois
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Key Statistics of the Paperboard Mills industry in Illinois
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