Premises Description

International Paper Company (founded 1898; today the largest U.S. and global paper and packaging company; headquartered Memphis TN) operated through the 20th century one of the largest U.S. integrated paper, pulp, packaging, and containerboard networks. Major International Paper asbestos-era U.S. sites included:

  • Memphis TN — corporate headquarters and legacy Memphis paper mill (mill closed 2008 — see International Paper Memphis Paper Mill jobsite)
  • Mobile AL — major Mobile paper mill
  • Prattville AL, Riegelwood NC, Georgetown SC, Eastover SC — Southeast paper mills
  • Pine Bluff AR — major Arkansas paper mill
  • Vicksburg MS, Redwood MS — Mississippi River paper mills
  • Ticonderoga NY — historic Adirondack paper mill
  • Corinth NY, Erie PA, Franklin VA — additional Northeast/Mid-Atlantic paper mills
  • Bastrop LA, Louisiana LA — Louisiana pulp and paper
  • Kalamazoo MI, Neenah WI — Great Lakes operations
  • Selma AL, Pensacola FL — Southeast operations
  • Dozens of containerboard plants and packaging operations nationally

Each operated continuously through the asbestos era with the standard paper-mill asbestos infrastructure profile.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that International Paper — as premises owner of its U.S. pulp and paper operations — exposed its pulp and paper workforce (USW / United Paperworkers representation) and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

International Paper Company has been named as a Premises Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.

Workers Exposed

  • USW / United Paperworkers Local members at IP paper mills
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working IP capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on IP construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building IP plant equipment
  • Construction-trade workforces on IP EPC projects

If You Worked at an International Paper Mill

If you worked at an International Paper Company paper mill, pulp mill, or packaging plant during the asbestos era — as an IP employee or as a dispatched contractor trade worker — and have since been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related illness, you may have legal rights.

Free, confidential case evaluation: Speak with O’Brien Law Firm — (314) 936-2956