MERC

Mercer International Inc.

A maker of Northern Bleached Softwood and Hardwood Kraft pulp, Mercer International turns wood into the fluffy fiber that becomes tissue, towels, and specialty papers, with mills in Germany and Western Canada. It got its start in 1968 as a Washington-state real estate trust called Pacific West Realty Trust, then pivoted to pulp in the 1990s by buying a German mill after reunification. The name "Mercer" is an old French word for a cloth merchant — fitting for a papermaker.