Greaker Industrier AS was a Norwegian industrial company, which ran a paper mill in

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. It was founded by Cæsar Bang in 1905 as ''Greaker Cellulosefabrik''. A 1972 bankrupt caused a slight reorganization, and the name ''Greaker Industrier'' was taken. In 1979 the company was acquired by M. Peterson & Søn. Its main product being

greaseproof paper Greaseproof paper is paper that is impermeable to oil or grease, and is normally used in cooking or food packaging. It is usually produced by refining the paper stock and thus creating a sheet with very low porosity. This is then passed between h ...

, it was separated from the packaging and solid board branches of M. Peterson & Søn in 1997 under the name ''Peterson Scanproof''. In 2001 it was merged with an entity owned by

Norske Skog Union Norske Skog Union was a paper mill located in Skien in Norway. The mill was part of the Norske Skog Corporation and opened in 1873 with the name Union Co. The mill had two paper machines that produced 240,000 tonnes of newsprint and book paper. I ...

to constitute the company

Nordic Paper Nordic Paper AS is a Norwegian industrial company, operating in Norway and Sweden. It was founded in 2001 when ''Peterson Scanproof'', a branch of M. Peterson & Søn which consisted of production units in Greåker (formerly owned by Greaker Indust ...

, placed under joint ownership of M. Peterson & Søn and

Norske Skogindustrier Norske Skog ASA, formerly Norske Skogindustrier ASA, which translates as ''Norwegian Forest Industries'', is a Norwegian pulp and paper company established in 1962. The company has long been one of the world's leading manufacturers of newsprint ...

. Both owners backed out of Nordic Paper in 2006.

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