50 Best Paper Manufacturing Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent paper manufacturing companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 5,270 companies tracked on Fsome.

5,270
Total Companies
$15.6B
Total Funding
$3.0M
Avg Funding
Mumbai
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Metsä Group
Metsä Group is a forest industry group that focuses on sustainable forestry, woo…
Espoo 1K - 5K $207.4M Debt Financing 2024-12-19
2
Kruger Products
Kruger Products is a manufacturer of tissue products for household, industrial a…
Mississauga 1K - 5K $125.5M Debt Financing 2025-12-03
3
Stora Enso
Stora Enso is the global rethinker of the paper, biomaterials, wood products and…
Helsinki c 10001 max $1.3B Post Ipo Debt 2026-04-10
4
Eldorado Brasil
Eldorado Brasil is the biggest & most modern pulp mill in the world & is competi…
Três Lagoas 1K - 5K $190.2M Grant 2025-12-25
5
Papier
Papier offers customizable stationery such as wedding cards, notebooks, planners…
London 101 - 250 $65.4M Series C 2022-02-13
6
Fedrigoni
Fedrigoni is an Italian producer of specialty papers and self-adhesive labels.
Verona 5K - 10K $2.7B Private Equity 2022-07-26
7
SafetyChain Software
A digital plant management platform for process manufacturers trusted by more th…
Novato 101 - 250 $50.0M Private Equity 2021-10-20
8
Paptic
Paptic is manufacturing company.
Espoo 1 - 10 $58.3M Series Unknown 2024-01-17
9
Suzano
Suzano is a integrated eucalyptus pulp and paper producers.
São Paulo c 10001 max $1.6B Post Ipo Debt 2025-10-17
10
Lignin Industries
Lignin Industries is a renewable resource company that provides products from th…
Knivsta 11 - 50 $4.4M Seed 2025-05-13
11
CollectiveCrunch
CollectiveCrunch - AI generated forest biodiversity, forest inventory and bark b…
Espoo 1 - 10 $6.8M Series A 2025-10-15
12
Energy Drive Systems
Energy Drive Systems as a Service, Energy Efficiency
London 51 - 100 $27.1M Private Equity 2025-06-03
13
Cascades Inc
Cascades Inc is a North American tissue manufacturing and conversion company.
Kingsey Falls 5K - 10K $800.0M Post Ipo Debt 2025-05-28
14
Cheeky Panda
Cheeky Panda is a sustainable bamboo tissue manufacturer.
London 11 - 50 $12.0M Equity Crowdfunding 2022-03-10
15
Irving Pulp & Paper
Irving’s highly integrated forest products value chain. The Pulp & Paper divisio…
Saint John 251 - 500 $660.0M Debt Financing 2025-09-26
16
GreenFirst Forest Products
GreenFirst Forest Products specializes in forest management and lumber productio…
Etobicoke 1K - 5K $25.5M Post Ipo Debt 2026-01-21
17
Tradefox
The leading business intelligence platform for the global trade of recyclables.
Dover 11 - 50 $3.8M Seed 2023-03-01
18
Folia Materials
Folia Materials: using paper as a super material
New York 1 - 10 $1.6M Grant 2025-04-24
19
Woamy
Woamy creates innovative biomaterials, such as foam derived from wood and agricu…
Espoo 11 - 50 $1.1M Seed 2023-01-20
20
Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA)
SCA is a global company with Swedish roots that develops and produces sustainabl…
Stockholm 1K - 5K $648.2M Post Ipo Debt 2024-11-25
21
Releaf Paper
Releaf Paper is the world's first producer of packaging paper made of urban gree…
Lyon 11 - 50 $2.7M Grant 2022-12-20
22
Matium
Matium is a SaaS/Marketplace automating raw material markets.
Alexandria 11 - 50 $2.3M Debt Financing 2026-04-14
23
Hillstrong Group Security
Hillstrong builds Resilion.io, an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps CISOs exec…
Atlanta 11 - 50 $799K Seed 2025-06-15
24
MG-Tec Industry
MG-Tec Industry is a local tissue paper company, that continuously innovates and…
Dej 501 - 1K $7.8M Debt Financing 2025-02-27
25
THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD.
B2B trading platform of Pulp , paper & allied Industry
Delhi 11 - 50 $13.1M Debt Financing 2023-12-11
26
PLASTICFRI
GreenTech company from Sweden with a breakthrough technology turning agricultura…
Stockholm 11 - 50 $5.5M Seed 2023-12-11
27
AEInnova
We develop the most advanced batteryless & maintenace-free long-range egde iIoT …
Terrassa 11 - 50 $9.9M Non Equity Assistance 2023-06-28
28
Creapaper
Creapaper develops an innovative raw material for paper production that is made …
Hennef 11 - 50 $28.4M Series B 2021-10-05
29
Rottneros
Rottneros is a manufacturing company that develops paper pulp.
Vallvik 251 - 500 $104.4M Post Ipo Equity 2025-07-03
30
Kanbol, Inc
Kanbol makes disposable food packaging with regionally sourced plant-based mater…
Auburn 1 - 10 $3.6M Grant 2025-09-11
31
Galapagos
Galapagos is an IT company that provides creative advertising and web developmen…
Tokyo 101 - 250 $11.9M Series A 2021-09-01
32
Favini
Favini is an Italian company with a long history in paper manufacturing.
Rossano Veneto 501 - 1K $81.4M Debt Financing 2024-07-23
33
Kokhavynska Paper Factory
Kokhavynska Paper Factory is a producer of recycled base paper and tissue.
Zhidachev 251 - 500 $16.5M Debt Financing 2021-03-15
34
Cloud Paper
Cloud Paper is a tree-free paper manufacturer that makes paper products made wit…
Seattle 1 - 10 $9.6M Series Unknown 2022-02-03
35
American Paper Bag
American Paper Bag is a manufacturer of advanced, sustainable, and innovative re…
Luzerne 51 - 100 $7.3M Series Unknown 2023-10-25
36
Envopap
envoPAP is a Sustainable Materials Company utilizing green technology to provide…
London 11 - 50 $1.5M Seed 2020-01-01
37
Von Drehle
Von Drehle is a manufacturer of away-from-home paper products.
Hickory 1K - 5K $90.0M Debt Financing 2020-08-04
38
Drenik ND
Drenik ND is a manufacturer and distributor of toilet paper, kitchen towels, nap…
Belgrade 501 - 1K $114.8M Debt Financing 2024-02-22
39
WEPA
Wepa is a company that manufactures sanitary papers.
Llangynwyd 1K - 5K $8.5M Grant 2021-02-24
40
Veracel Celulose
Veracel Celulose is a forest-based company that manufactures highly skilled cell…
Bahia 1K - 5K $38.5M Debt Financing 2022-09-13
41
Brenpower
Brenpower is an industrial solution, utilizing IoT and AI technologies to reduce…
London 1 - 10 $771K Convertible Note 2022-10-03
42
Columbia Pulp
Columbia Pulp is an agriculture Company turning waste straw into pulp for paperm…
Dayton 11 - 50 $71.7M Series Unknown 2019-03-27
43
Cellulotech
Sustainable Barrier Nanotechnology
Vancouver 11 - 50 $150K Seed 2025-07-08
44
Holmen
Holmen manufactures printing paper, paperboard, and sawn timber and runs forestr…
Fuenlabrada 1K - 5K $115.9M Post Ipo Debt 2025-11-03
45
Vajda Papír
Vajda-Papír manufactures high-quality paper products with great attention and ca…
Budapest 501 - 1K $12.9M Private Equity 2021-03-30
46
ALIER
Paper manufacturer specializing in recycled and sustainable paper products, with…
Barcelona 101 - 250 $4.8M Grant 2024-10-07
47
Open Packaging Network
B2B Data-driven industrial platform, generates Circular Economy Solutions for br…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $350K Seed 2019-02-01
48
ND Paper
ND Paper is a manufacturing firm of various types of sustainable pulp, packaging…
Oak Brook 1K - 5K $1.0M Grant 2022-12-09
49
Hood Container
Hood Container manufactures corrugated packaging.
Louisville 1K - 5K $500K Grant 2024-06-27
50
LignEasy
LignEasy is a low-impact, sulfuric acid-free lignin recovery solution for pulp m…
Helsinki 1 - 10 $1.1M Grant 2024-09-12