American Forest Products Corporation


American Forest Products Corporation was the name of a Fortune 500 company that began in the 1920s and endured under the same leadership until it was sold to the Bendix Corporation in 1969.

History

The American Forest Products Corporation began in 1910 as the Stockton Manufacturing Company, a joint effort of Horace Tartar and Clarence Albert Webster. The company produced wooden boxes used primarily by fruit growers and canners and "shook" the material of shipping strips which were used to keep boxes from shifting in transit. In 1911, the company was renamed the Stockton Box Company. Tartar and Webster incorporated in 1918 and later included their legal partner, Walter S. Johnson, to become Tartar, Webster and Johnson, Inc.
The box company expanded in the 1920s to include timber, saw mills and lumber. The company name became the American Forest Products Corporation.
A listing of Corporate holding compiled in 1944 included:
In 1963, AFPC had 4 sawmills and of timberland in Northern California, and employed over 4000 workers in 49 location in 16 states.
In 1981, Bendix sold AFP to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Georgia-Pacific acquired AFP in 1988.