WestRock

WestRock Company
legal form	Inc.
ISIN	US96145D1054
founding	2015
Seat	Atlanta , United States
management	Steven Voorhees , CEO
Number of employees	45,100
sales	16,285,000,000 USD
Branch	Paper and cardboard
Website	www.westrock.com
As of September 30, 2018

WestRock is an American cardboard and packaging manufacturer . It was created in 2015 with the merger of RockTenn and MeadWestvaco (MWV).

WestRock produces 12.3 million tons of cardboard per year.

history

RockTenn was formed in 1973 through the merger of Tennessee Paper Mills and Rock City Packaging . MeadWestvaco was founded in 2002 when Mead Corporation and Westvaco (originally Piedmont Pulp and Paper Company ) merged. In summer 2017, the packaging manufacturer Multi Packaging Solutions was taken over. In 2018, the company's headquarters were relocated from Richmond to Atlanta. In the same year the German company Schlüter Print Pharma Packaging was taken over.

WestRock in Germany

WestRock Germany is based in Trier. There is also a production site there. With the takeover of Multi Packaging Solutions, three more production locations were taken over in Germany: Kreuzau-Stockheim , Melle and Obersulm . The Schönebeck site of Schlüter Print Pharma Packaging has been owned by Westrock since 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} WestRock 2018 Annual Report , accessed February 2, 2018
2. ^ Phil W. Hudson: Rock-Tenn, MeadWestvaco to become WestRock following merger. In: Atlanta Business Chronicle . May 18, 2015, accessed August 29, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Facts & Figures ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Fortune 500 company WestRock makes Atlanta its 'home office' , at www.bizjournals.com , accessed February 2, 2019
5. ↑ Westrock takes over Schlüter , from www.verpackungsrundschau.de , accessed on February 2, 2019