Continental Paper Grading

Continental Paper Grading Company was established in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois. While we have remained an independent waste paper merchant for nearly a century of operation, our company has grown into a global business with a network of waste paper and pulp processing facilities, warehouses, and sales offices throughout North America. We proudly manage over 1.2 million tons of waste paper and secondary fiber yearly, and we buy and sell all grades of waste paper, post-industrial and post-consumer plastics, recyclable metals, and other products.

At CPG, our primary focus is on the needs and requirements of our worldwide network of vendors and our customers. We are pleased to offer a full range of services in waste paper management, including financing, warehousing, logistics, shredding, baling, roll cutting, and much more. We are a full-service waste material brokerage firm, and our size gives us top-tier buying power and financing abilities, enabling us to deliver products at highly-competitive prices and to extend financing opportunities which represent significant return on investment.

Our approach to business emphasizes building relationships and fostering repeat business with our many vendors and customers. We also operate our own in-house customer service department staffed with friendly industry professionals who specialize in solving problems and answering all of our vendors and customers’ questions. As a result of our dedication to quality service, we have been able to retain many of our customers, a number of which for more than four decades.Founded in 1919, Continental Paper Grading Company (CPG) is one of the largest independent waste paper brokers in the United States and Canada. As a leader in the waste paper brokerage industry for nearly a century, we deliver unmatched levels of experience, premier buying power, and a network of plants, warehouses, and offices across North America. We are proud to be an independent waste paper company, which enables us to focus our attention on our suppliers and customers’ needs above all else.

Our Services

With a highly-experienced staff and our facilities located throughout the U.S. and Canada, Continental Paper Grading provides a range of services for our customers. These services include waste paper buying and selling, shredding, baling, roll cutting, warehousing, logistics, financing, and much more.

Continental Paper Grading of Canada

In 1985, Continental Paper Grading Company established its Canadian affiliate company, Continental Paper Grading of Canada, in Mississauga, Ontario, just outside of Toronto. At CPG of Canada, our experienced waste paper brokers serve the Canadian and Northeastern U.S. markets with comprehensive offerings and expertise.We also specialize in buying post-consumer plastics and recyclable metals from municipal recycling facilities and selling it worldwide. Our Canadian office is staffed with waste material professionals who understand all of the specific Customs requirements for importing and exporting secondary fiber and other post-consumer materials into Canada, into the U.S., and throughout the world.

Product Speciality

At Continental Paper Grading, we handle all grades of waste paper, from convertible rolls to pulp, wet lap, brown grades, curbside grades, post-consumer grades, and many others. We are also pleased to deal in post-industrial and post-consumer plastics, recyclable metals, and more.

Serving Customers Worldwide

At Continental Paper Grading, we are proud to buy and sell all grades of waste paper, rollstock, plastics, and recyclable metals. Our infrastructure of processing plants, warehouses, and sales offices throughout North America combines with our global network of industry partners to give us a worldwide reach.

CPG Services

Continental Paper Grading is a full-service waste paper management and trading company delivering a complete range of brokerage and logistics services to vendors and customers throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and worldwide. With our extensive experience, our secondary fiber product knowledge, and our up-to-date understanding of the global markets, CPG is your source for value and responsiveness.

Roll Cutting
At our paper processing plants in Chicago, IL and York, PA, we have specialized roll-cutting and shredding equipment which enables us to cut and bale all types of rollstock. We take in all types of rolls and process them into bales for shipment to consuming paper mills.

Logistics and Warehousing
At CPG, we are proud to operate a network of warehouses and distribution centers throughout the United States. Our logistics departments specialize in moving waste paper effectively for maximum value, ensuring the best possible prices. Additionally, our extensive waste paper warehousing capacity enables us to take on all of our vendors’ surplus inventory and hold it until ideal market conditions are present.

Financing
We are pleased to provide valuable financing opportunities for our vendors, and we have extensive experience in helping develop and fund new baling and material handling systems for them. Our firm’s large size also gives us vast buying power, and our worldwide network of outlets allows us to take any grade or quantity of waste paper regardless of market conditions.

Waste Paper Brokerage
As one of the largest independent waste paper brokers in the industry, and because of our extensive access to supplies of all grades of waste paper, secondary fiber, and rollstock, we are able to provide our customers exactly the product they need, exactly when they need it. Our extensive buying power, our nationwide network of distribution centers, and our staff’s vast experience helps us deliver the highest levels of value to generators and customers alike.

Plants and Territories: CPG

Continental Paper Grading Company (CPG) operates a network of waste paper processing plants, warehouses, and sales and distribution centers throughout North America. Our well-equipped facilities, our extensive storage space, our company-owned fleet of trucks, and our worldwide network of waste paper outlets allows us to handle all grades of waste paper in virtually any quantity. Below is a listing of our plant and sales office locations, along with each locations’ capabilities and the regional territories they cover.