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Dec. 31, 2021
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
General | General Nature of Business Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc., or SWM or the Company, headquartered in the United States of America, is a multinational diversified producer of highly engineered solutions and advanced materials for a variety of industries. The Company maintains two operating product line segments: Advanced Materials & Structures ("AMS") and Engineered Papers ("EP"). The AMS segment offers design and manufacturing solutions for the healthcare, construction, industrial, transportation and filtration end-markets. We manufacture resin-based rolled goods such as nets, films and meltblown materials, bonding products and adhesive components, along with providing adhesives and other coating solutions and converting services for our customers. The EP segment primarily serves the tobacco industry with production of various cigarette papers and reconstituted tobacco products ("Recon"). Traditional reconstituted tobacco leaf ("RTL") is used as a blend with virgin tobacco in cigarettes and used in the production of small cigars. Recon, as well as low ignition propensity ("LIP") cigarette paper, a specialty product with fire-safety features, are two key profit drivers, which together account for more than half of segment net sales. The EP segment also produces non-tobacco papers for premium applications, such as energy storage and industrial commodity paper grades. We conduct business in over 90 countries and operate 38 production locations worldwide, with facilities in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Brazil, China, Italy, Malaysia, India and Poland. We also have a 50% equity interest in two joint ventures in China. The first, China Tobacco Mauduit (Jiangmen) Paper Industry Ltd., or CTM, produces cigarette and porous plug wrap papers and the second, China Tobacco Schweitzer (Yunnan) Reconstituted Tobacco Co. Ltd., or CTS, produces RTL. As used in this 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K, unless the context indicates otherwise, references to "we," "us," "our," "SWM," "Schweitzer-Mauduit" or similar terms include Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.

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