Resolute Forest Products (RFP)

Overall impact
C (48)

Commentary

Resolute Forest Products is an average overall performer. With a 'C' rating of 48.0 for overall impact (37th percentile compared to all companies), Resolute Forest Products ranks 30th out of 43 industry peers, behind Weyerhaeuser, Jewett Cameron Trading, Mercer International and 26 others, and ahead of UFP Industries, Oji Holdings, Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper and 10 others. On top material causes for Resolute Forest Products's industry (Lumber and Wood), Resolute Forest Products performs poorly in Sustainable Use of Water (38.1 score), Fair Labor Practices (38.7), Reduced Inequality (39.8) and 3 other causes where it received a 'D' or 'F' score. Resolute Forest Products did not receive an 'A' rating on any cause.
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Company
Founded
1984
Employees
6,900
Sector
Materials
Industry
Paper & Forest Products
Sub-industry
Paper Products
SASB industry
Pulp & Paper Products
Headquarters
Qc, Canada
Share classes
RFP
Mission
At Resolute Forest Products, profitability and sustainability drive our future. We are a global leader in the forest products industry with a diverse range of products, including market pulp, tissue, wood products, newsprint and specialty papers.
Description
Resolute Forest Products Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates in the forest products industry in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Market Pulp, Tissue, Wood Products, and Paper. The Market Pulp segment offers virgin and recycled bleached Kraft pulp, which is used to make a range of consumer products, including tissue, packaging, specialty paper products, diapers, and other absorbent products. The Tissue segment provides various tissue products, such as recycled and virgin paper products for the away-from-home and retail markets; and sells parent rolls. The Wood Products segment produces construction-grade and spruce-pine-fir lumber products, wood chips, bed frame components, finger joints, and furring strips for pulp and paper mills, as well as I-joists for the construction industry. The Paper segment offers newsprint to newspaper publishers, as well as to commercial printers for uses comprising inserts and flyers. This segment also provides various uncoated mechanical papers, including supercalendered and white papers, as well as uncoated freesheet papers. Its specialty papers are used in books, retail inserts, direct mail, coupons, magazines, catalogs, bags, and other commercial printing applications. This segment sells specialty papers to commercial printers, direct mailers, publishers, catalogers, and retailers. The company also produces electricity at cogeneration facilities and hydroelectric dams. Resolute Forest Products Inc. is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
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