RockTenn’s Jim Rubright Named 2008 CEO of the Year

“The award recognizes Jim Rubright’s leadership role in transforming RockTenn into a more diversified, low-cost paperboard packaging producer through two key acquisitions, which have paid off in the company’s financial performance,” according to Will Mies, director, news editorial, RISI.

Once mainly a player in the declining recycled boxboard market, RockTenn, headquartered in Norcross, Ga., has diversified and expanded its product offering through the acquisition of two low-cost mills (plus related converting plants)—Gulf States Paper’s solid bleached sulfate (SBS) board mill in 2005 and Southern Container’s Solvay recycled containerboard mill in March 2008.