Sylvamo is the world's paper company, honoring the promise of paper to educate, communicate and entertain – sustainably. Thackway McCord created the name Sylvamo when the company spun off from International Paper creating the worlds largest pure play paper production business. Sylvamo, reflecting the company's role as a steward of sustainable forests, combines the Latin words for forest, "silva," and love, "amo" creating "love of forests." The paper airplane icon is a symbol of aspiration and business focus, the warm purple color connotes both love and stability and is unique in a marketplace of green and the paper wave supergraphic suggest opportunity and progress.