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Established in 1991, Precision Paper Converters is a converter of facial tissue and related products. It maintains a tissue division that offers custom converting and packaging services for a variety of facial tissue products. The company operates a converting services division that provides precision and standard sheeting, guillotine trimming, slitting and rewinding for various grades of industrial paper. Precision Paper Converters offers packaging, collating, fulfillment and warehousing services. It produces a variety of facial tissue products under Sniffles brand. The company operates a more than 44,000-square-foot facility that includes office areas and production and warehouse space. It converts a variety of kraft and construction paper, chipboards and polypropylene films. Precision Paper Converters is located in Kaukauna, Wis.

Industrial, packaging and pressure sensitive papers are among Thilmany Papers' products. The company's industrial paper products include building and construction papers, interleaving papers, one-time carbonizing and paint masking. Grease resistant papers, larminating and coating bases, medical papers and waxing bases are among Thilmany's packaging paper offerings. The company's pressure sensitive paper products include coating bases, hygiene bases gumming and supercalendered release liners. Thilmany was founded in 1883 as Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company and operated independently until it was acquired by Hammermill in 1969. Wisconsin-based Thilmany Papers' Kaukauna and Nicolet paper mills and the Thilmany Packaging converting operation at the Kaukauna mill operated as part of International Paper's Industrial Papers Business until June 2005, when the business was acquired by Kohlberg & Company. The parent company is a private equity firm based in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Thilmany Papers has a location in De Pere, Wis.

Progressive Converting serves the paper industry including merchants and mills with high quality converting services and warehousing. With three plant locations throughout the United States it offers: precision sheeting (folio, digital, special or make sizes), slitting and rewinding (traditional, xeikon, docutech, etc.), cartoning (folio and junior cartons, digital sheets and rolls), warehousing with rail siding, custom skid shop, cut to register sheeting (security, watermark, holographic paper), 'house sheet program' for large printers, private label pograms, board sheeting programs and off-shore grades. Pro-Con does not buy or sell paper or board, it converts. The company has locations in Nevada, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.