What Paper Mills Are in Knoxville, Tennessee?
- The corporate offices for the Kimberly-Clark Corporation are located in Knoxville, Tenn. The Knoxville office provides support and services to all the Kimberly-Clark locations, including payroll, transportation, accounting and finance. Kimberly-Clark also has a mill in nearby Loudon, Tenn., where Kimberly-Clark's paper products are manufactured to later be used in products such as toilet paper, Kleenex and diapers.
- Although based in Nashville, Athens Paper Co. lists Knoxville as one of its 11 locations. Athens Paper is a privately owned company founded in 1952. The company has three major divisions: publishing, commercial printing and industrial. Athens Paper boasted sales of more than $300 million in 2004.
- Associated Patents Co. is a business founded a half-century ago in Knoxville that provides sample paper cutters to paper mills throughout North America. It offers two models: Model B and Model C, with Model B being the higher-end model. Its cutters are used to cut out an exact square-foot of paper that can be used for sampling. The company claims to have sold more 2,000 of these cutters, which will last roughly 20 years with the proper care.
- Knoxville, Tenn., does not boast many large industrial complexes, so these paper companies provide much-needed jobs to the area. The jobs they provide offer decent wages and usually come with health and retirement benefits for the employees and their families. Moreover, the wages they provide turn into revenue for local retail businesses, and therefore, help the local economy to thrive.
