Paperboard - The Total Cost Concept

Industry consolidation drives total-cost focus

Within the past five years, people who watch the market closely have noticed a trend—the consolidation of smaller companies into large conglomerates. This has an impact on all business dealings, but one person, John Hazen, president of Hazen Paper, said it best when he noted, "The paperboard industry as a whole has been characterized by rapid, almost frenetic change in the last five years due to industry consolidation and fallout, which has created an absolute pressure cooker as survivors work harder than ever to eek out hard-to-find profits."