Potlatch Corporation - PCH- Profile

Potlatch Corporation. The Group's principal activities are to grow and harvest timber and convert wood fiber into commodity and specialized wood products and bleached pulp products. The Group operates through three segments namely, Pulp and Paper, Wood products and Resource. The pulp and paper segment produces paperboard, consumer tissue and pulp. The wood products segment produces oriented strand board, lumber, plywood and particleboard. The printing papers segment produces coated printing papers and pulp. The resource segment manages Group-owned timberlands and provides wood fiber to the manufacturing segments. The Group has foreign sales in Japan, Australia, Canada, China, Italy, Korea and other countries. Pulp and Paper products accounted for 56% of 2002 revenues; Wood products, 39% and Resource, 5%.