Fort Howard's Green Bay operation achieves ISO 9002 registration

Business Wire, Dec 22, 1995

GREEN BAY, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1995--Fort Howard Corporation's Green Bay facility has become the largest tissue paper operation in the nation to achieve ISO 9002 registration.

The ISO 9002 is an international standard of quality assurance performance. It is widely recognized as the common quality standard necessary to do business in the worldwide marketplace.

An independent accreditation company completed a comprehensive audit on the Green Bay mill and offices before certifying the operation for ISO 9002 registration effective Dec. 18, 1995.

Don DeMeuse, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said the ISO registration effort is a natural extension of the company's Total Quality process begun more than six years ago.

``Our 3,000 Green Bay employees have made great strides utilizing the quality processes. This ISO registration is confirmation and official recognition of that,'' De Meuse said.

``The Green Bay site has historically been among the largest and most efficient recycled paper operations in the world. Now it also leads the nation in quality assurance performance for facilities of its size,'' DeMeuse said.

Fort Howard's Savannah River Mill in Rincon, GA, received ISO 9000 registration in 1994; the company's subsidiary in Manchester, England, was registered in 1993. The Muskogee, OK, mill is also pursuing registration.

CONTACT: Fort Howard Corporation, Green Bay

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