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Through The Noise
June 3, 2020
TTN #547 How an Essential Industry Copes With the Pandemic and Plans a Sustainable Future – With AF&PA
Heidi Brock // President & CEO // American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA)
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Heidi Brock
As President and CEO of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), Heidi Brock serves as the chief advocate for the pulp, paper, packaging and wood products manufacturing sector – an industry which accounts for approximately four percent of the total U.S. manufacturing GDP, manufactures nearly $300 billion in products annually and employs approximately 950,000 men and women.
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national trade association of the paper and wood products industry and advances public policies that promote a strong and sustainable U.S. forest products industry in the global marketplace.