KBA North America And xpedx Enter Alliance to Help Customers With Paper Supply, Education

xpedx, a business of International Paper (NYSE: IP), is one of the largest business-to-business distribution companies in the U.S. with more than $6.7 billion in 2006 revenues. xpedx distributes a wide range of paper and graphics, packaging and janitorial-sanitary supplies and equipment from many manufacturers worldwide. Customers include printers and publishers, manufacturers and retailers among many others. xpedx is the largest supplier of environmentally responsible printing papers in North America, including third-party certified papers, recycled papers and papers with post-consumer waste content. The company is based in Loveland, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati, and has 7,600 employees in more than 260 locations across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. For the agreement with KBA, xpedx brings uncoated paper from IP and coated paper from Sappi.