Paper360°’s 2025 Power List, Paper360º September/October 2025

The best way to predict the future is to create it, goes the adage. Yet when you’re talking about an entire industry—an industry with direct impact on health, hygiene, education, and quality of life for the global population—an industry at the nexus of science, sustainability, technology, and innovation—an industry evolving away from the old model of what it was to explore new ideas about what it could be—you need more than a few wise words to make it happen.

You need people.

Each year, Paper360° offers this Top 50 Power List to look at the movers and shakers within the pulp, paper, packaging, and tissue industry—those working to create our industry’s future. This year, our editors continue to expand our idea of “who” is powerful to include people outside of the C-Suite—acknowledging that anyone with passion, knowledge, and determination can be a changemaker. We have reached out to some of TAPPI’s most active divisions to ask for the inside scoop on who is making a difference within dynamic industry sectors including Young Professionals, Women in Industry, and Renewable Bioproducts.

We round things out by throwing the spotlight on some powerful “whats” in our industry: innovations from mills, plants, and supplier companies that we think will have a lasting impact.

Who (or what) did we miss? Check out this year’s exclusive list, then send us your own Power Players!

TAPPI conference proceedings and presentations, technical papers, and publication articles provide technical and management data and solutions on topics covering the Pulp, Paper, Tissue, Corrugated Packaging, Flexible Packaging, Nanotechnology and Converting Industries.

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