Boxboard may be uniform in substance and quality throughout or it may emerge from the mill in a single sheet composed of layers made from different types of pulp. Each serves a specific need. The first group, folding boxboard, is made into products such as detergent boxes and milk or juice containers. Miscellaneous boxboard includes many kinds of paperboard used for hundreds of products ranging from pie plates to paperboard used in the manufacture of gypsum wallboards. Tremendous advances in the areas of packaging materials have been made over the years, making paperboard a renewable, reusuable and recyclable innovator which is even more versatile and useful to the needs of today's marketplace.
Most newsprint is used to print daily and weekly newspapers.
The other major uses are inserts and flyers, newspaper supplements and directories. Canada enjoys a long-standing tradition as the world's largest producer and exporter of newsprint. The Canadian newsprint industry is widely recognized for the quality of its product and its reliability of supply. Accordingly, Canadian producers ship to virtually every corner of the world. The newsprint sector represents the largest segment of the Canadian paper and paperboard industry with almost 50 percent of the capacity.