INCENTIVE STOCK PLANS (Details)	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Restricted Stock [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares for every three Rayonier shares	1
Number of Rayonier shares for issuance of one Rayonier Advanced Materials share	3
Reissued 2013 Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award Vesting Period	24 months

Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 718

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (a)(1)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901

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