Asia Pacific Resources International, Ltd, (APRIL) is Indonesia’s second largest producer of pulp and paper, including packaging, printing, and writing papers. APRIL is also the world’s second largest producer of bleached hardwood kraft pulp. In addition to its own paper production, the company’s pulp is used by paper companies in China, Korea, Indonesia, India, Japan, and Europe. APRIL’s paper products are sold in over 75 countries globally under a variety of brands.

APRIL is based in Singapore, and is part of the Royal Golden Eagle group (RGE), which also includes the affiliated paper company Asia Symbol. The company’s primary mills are in Indonesia and China, including subsidiary Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (RAPP), which operates one of the world’s largest paper mills in Riau Province, Sumatra. APRIL’s fiber is sourced primarily from Indonesia and Latin America.

APRIL’s hardwood kraft pulp is used by APRIL and other paper companies in China, Korea, Indonesia, India, Japan, and Europe. The resulting products include beverage cartons, shopping bags, other packaging, tissue paper, printing, and writing papers including magazine and book paper. Because APRIL’s fiber is often rebranded by other companies, it is important to seek full disclosure and verification of paper fiber origins, including through techniques such as fiber testing.

Companies directly associated with APRIL include: APRIL Fine Paper Trading Pte Ltd, APRIL Fine Paper Trading Ltd., Alkira Trading (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, Asia Symbol, AP Enterprises (Macao) Commercial Offshore Limited, Primeyield Enterprise Pte Ltd, APRIL Fine Paper Macao Commercial Offshore Limited, APRIL Fine Paper (Guangdong) Co. Ltd., Shandong Asia Pacific SSYMB Pulp and Paper, Suzhou Industrial Park Asia Pacific Paper Converting, Suzhou Ascend Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd.

Other affiliated companies include Tobas Pulp Lestari and Sateri.

APRIL operates mainly in Sumatra, Indonesia in areas representing some of the last refuges for the critically endangered Sumatran elephant and Sumatran tiger. On Sumatra alone, there are 200 tree species that have been classified as being endangered, which is 39 per cent of all the endangered tree species in Indonesia. APRIL's logging sites in Sumatra are the natural habitat of numerous endangered species. the Sumatran elephant sub-species (Elephans maximus). In 2007, Sumatran elephant populations in Riau have declined to as few as 210 individuals. If forest clearing isn’t halted, they may become locally extinct in a few years’ time. the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris).

Deforestation in Riau has been driving the Sumatran tiger to extinction. In 2007, Sumatran tiger populations in Riau have declined to as192 individuals. globally endangered tapir (Tapirus indicus),

The conversion of natural rainforests into tree plantations inevitably reduces the habitat of these species, leading them extinction. As an example, in 2005 APRIL started to clear the precious rainforests of in Bukit Tigapuluh and Kerumutan landscapes, some of the last habitat of the Sumatran Tiger.

In January 2014 APRIL released a first and still insufficient Sustainable Forest Management Policy. The company has faced intense controversy previously for violations of its own forest conservation commitments, including its insufficient Sustainable Forest Management Policy version 1.0 released

n June 2015, APRIL announced a Sustainable Forest Management Policy version 2.0 (SFMP 2.0), which announced a commitment to zero deforestation and an immediate stop to clearing of natural forests. The SFMP 2.0 by APRIL is within a “Sustainability Framework” recently developed by its parent, RGE Group.