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Weyerhaeuser Company is an American forest products company based
in Federal Way, Washington. It is the third largest
pulp and paper company in the world, with operations
in the United States, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand,
China, Mexico and Uruguay, among others. The world's largest private owner of softwood timberland, it is the third largest owner in the United States,
behind Plum Creek Timber and International Paper. It has approximately 57,000 employees.
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2002 |
2001 |
Net Sales
(US$M) |
18,521 |
14,545 |
Net Earnings (Loss)
(US$M) |
241 |
354 |
Its shares trade on the NYSE under the
ticker symbol WY.
Weyerhaeuser was founded in January 1900 by Frederick Weyerhaeuser and 15 partners with 900,000 acres of Washington state timberland. In 1929 the company built
what was then the world's largest sawmill in Longview,
Washington. In 1931, the company started producing pulp at its pulp mill in Longview, which sustained it financially through
the Great Depression. In 1959 the company changed its name to
Weyerhaeuser Company, eliminating the word "Timber" to better reflect its operations. In 1965 Weyerhaeuser built its first
bleached kraft pulp mill in Canada.
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