Hammermill Paper Company
The Hammermill Paper Company, founded in 1898 was originally known as the Ernst R Behrend Company. That same year, construction began on their first paper mill in Erie, Pennsylvania.[1] The company was founded by three brothers (Ernst, Otto and Bernard Behrend) and their father Moritz Behrend in Erie, Pennsylvania. Ernst served as President and Otto, secretary.[2]
History
Behrend changed the name of the company before the first mill even opened in honor of his father's papermills in Germany. The company expanded by buying a mill in Oswego, New York that was making copier paper exclusively for Xerox. In the 1960s, mills were acquired in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and near Selma, Alabama.[3] In 1962, they bought the Stathmore Paper Company.[4] After a failed takeover by Paul Bilzerian and brothers William and Earle I. Mack (sons of New Jersey real estate developer H. Bert Mack),[5] Hammermill was purchased in 1987, by the International Paper Company, with customer services and operations moving to their Memphis headquarters in 1988.[6] (Note,, there is discrepancy to the year they were taken over. The reference above says 1987. The Penn State Archives say 1984,[7] and the International Paper wiki article says 1986)
Innovations
- 1952 Hammermill developed the neutracel pulping process.
- 1954 In a cooperative venture with the Haloid-Xerox Company, they created the first xerographic copier papers.
- 1986, Hammermill was the first to market laser paper.[8]
References
- ↑ Hammermill History
- ↑ Penn State Archives Hammermill Collection
- ↑ Hammermill history
- ↑ Strathmore Paper Company History
- ↑ New York Times: "HAMMERHILL GETS BID OF $722 MILLION" by JOHN CRUDELE July 25, 1986
- ↑ Hammermill history
- ↑ Penn State Archives
- ↑ Hammermill history