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November 6, 2024
Press Release

AF&PA Comments on the 2024 Election

WASHINGTON – The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Heidi Brock issued the following statement on the 2024 election:

“AF&PA congratulates President-Elect Donald Trump and Vice President-Elect JD Vance.

We are ready to get to work on behalf of the approximately 925,000 forest products industry employees who are manufacturing essential and sustainable paper and wood products that are used daily by people across the country and around the world. We are proud to make essential products from renewable and recyclable resources.

AF&PA remains committed to advancing public policies that foster economic growth, job creation and international competitiveness in this vital sector. Over 75% of our member company facilities are located in counties that are overwhelmingly rural. Our facilities and our member companies provide good, family-wage jobs and our employees are the backbone of these communities.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) serves to advance public policies that foster economic growth, job creation and global competitiveness for a vital sector that makes the essential paper and packaging products Americans use every day. The U.S. forest products industry employs more than 925,000 people, largely in rural America, and is among the top 10 manufacturing sector employers in 44 states. Our industry accounts for approximately 4.7% of the total U.S. manufacturing GDP, manufacturing more than $435 billion in products annually. AF&PA member companies are significant producers and users of renewable biomass energy and are committed to making sustainable products for a sustainable future through the industry’s decades-long initiative — Better Practices, Better Planet 2030. 

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