PAPER RECYCLING CONFERENCE: Prullage Wins Mill Buyer Award

Gregory L. Prullage of Graphic Packaging International Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich., has received the second annual Mill Buyer Award, it was announced at the Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show in late June in Atlanta.

Prullage has been in the recovered paper business for several decades. He started his career at the Fort Howard Company, which has subsequently gone through several mergers and is now part of Georgia Pacific Corp. “As many people know, ‘The Fort’ produced many alumni who are considered some of the best buyers in the industry,” says Bill Moore, president of the Atlanta-based paper consulting firm Moore & Associates and one of the judges for the Mill Buyer Award.

After a stint at the Recycled Fibers Division of The Newark Group, in 1994 Prullage moved to his current position as manager of fiber procurement for Graphic Packaging’s Kalamazoo, Mich., mill. The mill is one of the larger clay-coated boxboard mills in the U.S., using more than 800 tons per day of a wide range of recovered paper grades.

“Greg is highly respected for his integrity and communications skills as a buyer,” says Moore. “He knows how to get the best quality and price for his mill, but has a reputation as being one of the fairest people in the business. Through a long career that’s included many companies at a small number of mill sites, Greg has maintained continuity as a buyer that has served his employers well.”