PCA Makes Containerboard Mill Operations Leadership Change

Packaging Corporation of America (PCA), Lake Forest, Ill., USA, recently announced that Charles J. (Jack) Carter has been named VP, Containerboard with responsibility for the company's four containerboard mills and support operations. Carter will report to Mark W. Kowlzan, CEO of the company. Kowlzan was previously responsible for mill operations prior to being named CEO in June 2010.

Carter joined PCA in March 2010 as director, Papermaking Technology. He has almost 30 years of forest products industry experience working in key management positions. Prior to joining PCA, he was VP and GM of Abitibi Bowater's Calhoun, Tenn., mill.

PCA is the fifth largest producer of containerboard and corrugated packaging products in the U.S. with sales of $2.15 billion in 2009. It operates four paper mills and 67 corrugated product plants in 26 states across the country.

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