Subsidy Tracker: Industry Summary Page
Major Industry:
paper and packaging
Subsidy Total:
$2,333,645,091
Number of Awards:
2,566
Time Period:
Earliest year of data: 1992. Availability of data for earlier years varies greatly from program to program. The majority of the listings for this industry are for the period since 2012.
Notes:
The dollar total above adjusts for the fact that there is an overlap between the amounts in one or more Megadeal entries and those of one or more of the other entries. The total includes only those entries matched to a parent company. The industry designation is the primary one for the parent's operations overall. Dollar totals do not include awards for which no subsidy value is disclosed.
| Top 10 Parent Companies | Total Subsidy $ | Number of Awards |
|---|---|---|
| International Paper | $400,433,889 | 394 |
| Stora Enso | $277,344,977 | 5 |
| WestRock | $272,432,939 | 281 |
| Domtar | $213,250,208 | 76 |
| Cascades Inc. | $196,834,305 | 123 |
| Packaging Corporation of America | $138,004,246 | 140 |
| Ball Corp. | $116,072,806 | 195 |
| Berry Global | $91,064,944 | 93 |
| Graphic Packaging | $84,611,990 | 118 |
| Verso Corporation | $82,316,734 | 28 |
Individual Subsidy Records:
| Company | Parent | Location | Subsidy Source | Year | Subsidy Value | Loan/Bailout Value |
Type of Subsidy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appleton Papers, Inc. | Appvion | Pennsylvania | state | $250,000 | grant | ||
| Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc. | Owens-Illinois | Pennsylvania | state | $200,000 | grant | ||
| Owens-Brockway Glass Containers, Inc. | Owens-Illinois | Pennsylvania | state | $150,000 | grant | ||
| MeadWestvaco Corporation | WestRock | Pennsylvania | state | $100,000 | grant | ||
| Amcor Plastube, Inc. | Amcor | Pennsylvania | state | $75,000 | grant | ||
| Meadwestvaco Corporation | WestRock | Pennsylvania | state | $75,000 | grant | ||
| Amcor PET Packaging USA, Inc. | Amcor | Pennsylvania | state | $50,000 | grant | ||
| AEP Industries Inc | Berry Global | Pennsylvania | state | $50,000 | grant | ||
| Amcor PET Packaging | Amcor | Virginia | state | 2006 | $400,000 | grant | |
| MeadWestvaco | WestRock | Virginia | state | 2008 | $2,000,000 | grant | |
| Polymer Group | Berry Global | Virginia | state | 2010 | $750,000 | grant | |
| Polymer Group | Berry Global | Virginia | state | 2010 | $750,000 | grant | |
| Smurfit-Stone Container | WestRock | Virginia | state | 2010 | $300,000 | grant | |
| Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation | WestRock | Virginia | state | 2010 | $300,000 | grant | |
| Polymer Group, Inc. | Berry Global | Virginia | state | 2010 | $750,000 | grant | |
| MeadWestvaco | WestRock | Virginia | state | 2011 | $1,000,000 | grant | |
| International Paper Company | International Paper | New York | state | 2010 | $785,000 | grant | |
| Huhtamaki, Inc. | Huhtamaki Oyj | Alabama | state | 2010 | $32,000 | grant | |
| AptarGroup, Inc. | AptarGroup | North Carolina | state | 2011 | $1,006,400 | grant | |
| Domtar Paper Company LLC | Domtar | North Carolina | state | 2012 | $7,000,000 | grant | |
| Packaging Corporation of America | Packaging Corporation of America | Pennsylvania | state | $150,000 | grant | ||
| International Paper | International Paper | Virginia | state | 2012 | $350,000 | grant | |
| RockTenn | WestRock | Virginia | state | 2011 | $300,000 | grant | |
| Sealed Air Corporation | Sealed Air | Mississippi | state | 2012 | $36,320 | grant | |
| Ball Plastic Container Corp. | Ball Corp. | New Jersey | state | 1996 | $315,560 | grant | |
| INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY | International Paper | Ohio | state | 2008 | $250,000 | grant | |
| CURWOOD INC | Amcor | Ohio | state | 2009 | $40,000 | grant | |
| OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER INC | Owens-Illinois | Ohio | state | 2011 | $100,000 | grant | |
| OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER INC | Owens-Illinois | Ohio | state | 2011 | $300,000 | grant | |
| SILGAN PLASTICS CORPORATION | Silgan | Ohio | state | 2011 | $75,000 | grant | |
| BALL CORPORATION | Ball Corp. | Ohio | state | 2013 | $50,000 | grant | |
| APPLETON PAPERS | Appvion | Ohio | state | 2008 | $35,000 | grant | |
| INTERNATIONAL CONVERTER INC | Novolex | Ohio | state | 2008 | $15,000 | grant | |
| PH GLATFELTER CO | Glatfelter | Ohio | state | 2008 | $83,799 | grant | |
| REXAM BEVERAGE CAN COMPANY NORTH AMERICA | Ball Corp. | Ohio | state | 2008 | $49,900 | grant | |
| SMURFIT-STONE CONTAINER | WestRock | Ohio | state | 2008 | $50,000 | grant | |
| TIN INC | International Paper | Ohio | state | 2008 | $11,500 | grant | |
| CURWOOD INC | Amcor | Ohio | state | 2009 | $11,925 | grant | |
| NEWPAGE CORPORATION | Verso Corporation | Ohio | state | 2009 | $150,000 | grant | |
| REXAM BEVERAGE CAN COMPANY NORTH AMERICA | Ball Corp. | Ohio | state | 2009 | $37,500 | grant | |
| GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL INC | Graphic Packaging | Ohio | state | 2010 | $28,000 | grant | |
| INTERNATIONAL CONVERTER INC | Novolex | Ohio | state | 2010 | $3,750 | grant | |
| NEWPAGE CORPORATION | Verso Corporation | Ohio | state | 2010 | $50,000 | grant | |
| PH GLATFELTER CO | Glatfelter | Ohio | state | 2010 | $25,000 | grant | |
| PH GLATFELTER CO | Glatfelter | Ohio | state | 2011 | $75,000 | grant | |
| SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY | Sonoco Products | Ohio | state | 2012 | $25,000 | grant | |
| CROWN CORK & SEAL USA INC | Crown Holdings | Ohio | state | 2013 | $18,754 | grant | |
| NEWPAGE CORPORATION | Verso Corporation | Ohio | state | 2013 | $59,093 | grant | |
| OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER INC | Owens-Illinois | Ohio | state | 2013 | $38,742 | grant | |
| PH GLATFELTER CO | Glatfelter | Ohio | state | 2013 | $166,694 | grant | |
| PLASTIPAK PACKAGING INC | Plastipak | Ohio | state | 2013 | $8,219 | grant | |
| PH GLATFELTER CO | Glatfelter | Ohio | state | 2010 | $16,201 | grant | |
| OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER INC | Owens-Illinois | Ohio | state | 2011 | $250,000 | grant | |
| HUHTAMAKI INC | Huhtamaki Oyj | Ohio | state | 2013 | $350,000 | grant | |
| BALL CORPORATION | Ball Corp. | Ohio | state | 2013 | $50,000 | grant | |
| HUHTAMAKI INC | Huhtamaki Oyj | Ohio | state | 2013 | $150,000 | grant | |
| Appleton Papers Inc. | Appvion | Wisconsin | state | 2012 | $306,000 | grant | |
| Berry Plastics Opco, Inc. | Berry Global | Indiana | state | 2013 | $400,000 | grant | |
| Cascades Moulded Pulp | Cascades Inc. | North Carolina | state | 1996 | $14,400 | grant | |
| Amcor Rigid Plastics USA, Inc. | Amcor | Florida | state | 2012 | $50,600 | grant | |
| Amcor Rigid Plastics USA, Inc | Amcor | Pennsylvania | state | $50,000 | grant | ||
| Covalence Specialty | Berry Global | Rhode Island | state | 2013 | undisclosed | grant | |
| Sonoco | Sonoco Products | South Carolina | state | 2011 | $100,000 | grant | |
| Domtar Paper Company, LLC | Domtar | South Carolina | state | 2012 | $100,000 | grant | |
| Ardagh Metal Packaging USA Inc. | Ardagh Packaging Group | Virginia | state | 2014 | $750,000 | grant | |
| PH GLATFELTER CO | Glatfelter | Ohio | state | 2014 | $93,996 | grant | |
| OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER INC | Owens-Illinois | Ohio | state | 2014 | $65,140 | grant | |
| BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION | Berry Global | Ohio | state | 2014 | $23,814 | grant | |
| OWENS-ILLINOIS GENERAL INC | Owens-Illinois | Ohio | state | 2014 | $1,868 | grant | |
| Silgan Plastics Corporation | Silgan | West Virginia | state | 2013 | $5,000,000 | grant | |
| Sonoco Products | Sonoco Products | North Carolina | state | 1994 | $25,000 | grant | |
| UPM-Raflatac, Inc. | UPM | North Carolina | state | 2003 | $50,000 | grant | |
| Graphic Packaging International, Inc | Graphic Packaging | North Carolina | state | 2006 | $300,000 | grant | |
| Alcan Pkg Food & Tob Inc. | Amcor | North Carolina | state | 2008 | $250,000 | grant | |
| Rock-Tenn Converting Company | WestRock | North Carolina | state | 2013 | $93,750 | grant | |
| International Paper Company | International Paper | Tennessee | state | 2014 | $2,000,000 | grant | |
| Graphic Packaging International, Inc. | Graphic Packaging | Georgia | state | 2012 | $200,000 | grant | |
| Rock-Tenn Company | WestRock | Georgia | state | 2013 | $300,000 | grant | |
| Curwood, Inc. | Amcor | Iowa | state | 2012 | $1,329,625 | grant | |
| Amcor Rigid Plastics USA, Inc | Amcor | Iowa | state | 2012 | $1,450,000 | grant | |
| Huhtamaki, Inc. | Huhtamaki Oyj | Indiana | state | 2015 | $250,000 | grant | |
| Ardagh Metal Packaging, Inc. | Ardagh Packaging Group | Nevada | state | 2013 | $630,000 | grant | |
| Sealed Air Corporation | Sealed Air | North Carolina | state | 2014 | $48,956,000 | grant | |
| Alcan Packaging | Amcor | Wisconsin | state | 2007 | $390,000 | grant | |
| GLATFELTER ADVANCED MATERIALS NA INC | Glatfelter | Arkansas | state | 2016 | $2,000,000 | grant | |
| OWENS-ILLINOIS GENERAL INC | Owens-Illinois | Ohio | state | 2016 | $35,260 | grant | |
| Polymer Group | Berry Global | Virginia | state | 2011 | $750,000 | grant | |
| International Paper Company | International Paper | Virginia | state | 2014 | $500,000 | grant | |
| Greif Brothers | Greif | Virginia | state | 2014 | $350,000 | grant | |
| Sealed Air | Sealed Air | North Carolina | local | 2014 | $4,446,400 | grant | |
| Sealed Air Corporation | Sealed Air | North Carolina | local | 2014 | $2,823,831 | grant | |
| Sealed Air Corporation | Sealed Air | North Carolina | local | 2014 | $1,622,569 | grant | |
| Domtar Paper Company LLC | Domtar | North Carolina | local | 2015 | $1,500,000 | grant | |
| Ardagh Glass, Inc. | Ardagh Packaging Group | North Carolina | local | 2017 | $841,000 | grant | |
| WestRock | WestRock | North Carolina | local | $372,000 | grant | ||
| Ball Corporation | Ball Corp. | North Carolina | local | 2012 | $188,292 | grant | |
| Ball Corporation | Ball Corp. | North Carolina | local | 2012 | $184,578 | grant | |
| Amcor | Amcor | North Carolina | local | 2013 | $171,593 | grant | |
| Amcor | Amcor | North Carolina | local | 2013 | $168,209 | grant | |
| Sealed Air | Sealed Air | North Carolina | local | 2011 | $110,000 | grant | |
| Sealed Air | Sealed Air | North Carolina | local | 2013 | $24,000 | grant |
