Union Camp Corporation

Union Camp Corporation was an American pulp and paper company and a private owner of timberland in the United States.

Each of these family-owned companies had unique histories that led to the ultimate success of Union Camp until it was acquired by International paper.

[1] In the late 1920s, partially due to concerns about the labor union movement in the north, the company built a major mill (the largest in the world at the time and for many years) in Savannah, Georgia, on land formerly occupied by the Hermitage Plantation.

With the onset of World War I, the increased demand for lumber brought the company back to financial success.

[5] Reluctant to forfeit this control by becoming a publicly traded company, the Camp family looked for other avenues.

The product was called "Honeycomb" and it was unique in that it resembled a beehive, with the edges of the cells giving overall greater strength wherever it was used.

The manufacturing plant for this product was at Glens Falls, New York and a technical staff was maintained there for architects and engineers.

Also, at this site in Glens Falls, Union Camp maintained a cave-like storage facility where microfilms of all the company's important documents, such as contracts and legal papers, were sent after filming.