Boise Cascade

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Boise Cascade Holdings, LLC, which uses the trade name Boise, is an American pulp and paper company, ranked as the thirteenth largest forest products company in the world. It is composed of the assets sold off when the publicly-traded Boise Cascade Corporation renamed itself OfficeMax Inc. (after acquiring the company of the same name in 2003).

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[edit] Boise Cascade Corporation

Boise Cascade Corporation, was established in 1957 as the result of the merger between Boise-Payette Lumber Company of Boise and the Cascade Lumber Company of Yakima, Washington.

Boise-Payette was established in 1913 from a merger of the Payette Lumber & Manufacturing Company and Barber Lumber, a Wisconsin company with operations in the Boise Basin. Payette Lumber, a Minnesota firm, acquired 33,000 acres of state timber in Idaho's Long Valley near present-day Cascade in 1902. To control the passage of logs downstream, the company built a large splash dam below Smith's Ferry on the North Fork of the Payette River. Logs were sent downstream to sawmills in the town of Payette.

In the 1960's, Boise Cascade acquired a majority interest in the Cuban Electric Co., the primary electric utility in pre-Castro Cuba.^[1]

In November 2004, the corporation completed its sale of its paper, building products, and timberland assets to Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity investment firm. Boise Cascade Corporation then renamed itself OfficeMax, which it had acquired in 2003.

[edit] Boise Cascade Holdings, LLC

Following the sale, Madison Dearborn Partners then reorganized its newly acquired assets into Boise Cascade Holdings LLC, a limited liability company.

Boise Cascade is headquartered in downtown Boise.

The company is not affiliated with the Canadian paper company Cascades.