Private Companies Report from The Freedonia Group

Report Features

This report covers 180+ privately-held US producers and distributors of and other packaging products, and examines the role private companies play within this industry. Each company profiled was interviewed regarding their BoxesBoxes product lines, sales and/or employment. Market Overview — presents the eco- nomic factors which will dictate growth in the and other paperboard pack- aging market, plus industry demand fore- && OtherOther casts to 2003. Industry Structure — includes market share for the leading private and public companies in the corrugated and solid fiber box, and folding paperboard box markets, plus analysis of private company merger and acquisition activity. The PaperboardPaperboard report also contains listings of private producers by key product and state.

Company Profiles — the main body of the report profiles private companies active in the industry. (See inside pages PackagingPackaging for sample profiles.) Report Benefits

Save hours of time researching difficult Report # 1208 January 2000 $ 3000 to find private company information and identifying players in key product and market segments. Freedonia has used its n Private companies are among the vast resources of published and propri- Key Findings significant producers of fiber etary information, as well as one-on-one cans and tubes, beverage , interviews, to identify and profile more n Over 2,000 private companies nonfolding food containers and than 180 privately-held companies in a participate in the $31.4 billion fibre drums. specific industry. Companies are orga- US box and other paperboard nized by product and/or market in easy- packaging market. n Smaller, typically private firms to-read tables. are able to compete in this indus- Identify companies for investment, n Nine private companies have box try on the basis of innovative and other paperboard packaging merger, and/or acquisition opportunities designs, graphic capabilities, or based on size, products, and location. sales of at least $200 million. by servicing geographic and/or other niche markets, such as Understand barriers to entry based on n Five private companies together private label brands. industry concentration and market shares. account for twelve percent of the corrugated and solid fiber box n US demand for boxes and other Measure your market and sales market, while three private firms paperboard packaging is forecast potential based on demand forecasts. have a combined nine percent to increase three percent per year share of the folding paperboard through 2003 to $36.4 billion. Develop strategies based on size and box market. geographic location of competitors. Table of Contents List of Private Companies Profiled

Accurate Box Company Incorporated ...... 76 IMPAC Group Incorporated ...... 176 Accurate Container Corporation ...... 77 Innovative Folding ...... 179 Introduction Action Box Company Incorporated ...... 78 Integrated Packaging Corporation ...... 180 Advance Packaging Corporation ...... 79 Interstate Resources Incorporated ...... 181 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...... 1 Advance Box Company ...... 80 Jamestown Container Companies ...... 182 AGE Industries Incorporated ...... 81 JR Cole Industries Incorporated ...... 184 MARKET ENVIRONMENT ...... 4 A&H Manufacturing Company ...... 83 Key Container Corporation ...... 185 General ...... 4 Akers Packaging Service Incorporated ...... 84 Kindlon Enterprises Incorporated ...... 186 Manufacturing Outlook ...... 5 All West Container Company ...... 85 Kraft Container Corporation ...... 187 Packaging Trends ...... 6 Alpha Packaging Incorporated ...... 86 Laimbeer Packaging Company LLC ...... 188 Retail Sales Outlook ...... 8 American Corrugated Products ...... 87 Lawrence Paper Company ...... 190 Boxes & Other Paperboard Packaging Outlook ..... 10 American Paper and Packaging Corporation ...... 88 Levin Brothers Paper ...... 191 Corrugated & Solid Fiber Boxes ...... 12 American River Packaging Incorporated ...... 89 Liberty Diversified Industries ...... 193 Paperboard Boxes ...... 14 Americraft Carton Incorporated ...... 90 LINPAC Incorporated ...... 195 Other Paperboard Packaging ...... 17 Anchor Bay Packaging Corporation ...... 92 Lone Star Container Corporation ...... 196 Boxes & Other Paperboard Packaging Markets ..... 20 Arkay Packaging Corporation ...... 93 Los Angeles Paper Box & Board Mills ...... 197 Arvco Containers ...... 95 Love Box Company Incorporated ...... 198 INDUSTRY STRUCTURE ...... 25 Astro Container Group ...... 96 Mack Packaging Group Incorporated ...... 200 General ...... 25 Batavia Container Incorporated ...... 98 Mafcote Incorporated ...... 202 Consolidation Trends & Recent Acquisitions ...... 29 Bates Container Incorporated ...... 99 Malnove Incorporated ...... 204 Corrugated & Solid Fiber Boxes ...... 36 Bay Cities Container Corporation ...... 100 Manhattan Container Corporation ...... 205 Market Share ...... 37 Beacon Container Corporation ...... 101 Marcal Paper Mills Incorporated ...... 206 Private Company Characteristics ...... 38 Beck Carton Corporation ...... 102 McCowat-Mercer Press Incorporated ...... 207 Folding Paperboard Boxes ...... 47 Berenfield Containers Incorporated ...... 103 McLean Packaging Corporation ...... 208 Market Share ...... 48 Bicknell & Fuller Incorporated ...... 104 Menasha Corporation ...... 209 Private Company Characteristics ...... 49 Blower-Dempsay Corporation ...... 105 Michelsen Packaging Company ...... 212 Set-Up Boxes & Other Paperboard Packaging ...... 55 Bonita Packaging Products Incorporated ...... 107 Michigan Box Company ...... 213 Leading Private Producers ...... 55 Bradford Company ...... 108 Midland Container Corporation ...... 214 Private Company Characteristics ...... 56 Buckeye Boxes Incorporated...... 110 Miller Container Corporation ...... 215 Regional Concentration ...... 60 Buckeye Corrugated Incorporated ...... 111 Model Box Incorporated of America ...... 216 Burd & Fletcher Company ...... 113 Montebello Container Corporation ...... 218 PRIVATE COMPANY PROFILES ...... 75-323 Burt (FN) Company ...... 114 National Packaging Companies ...... 219 Burt Rigid Box Incorporated ...... 115 National Packaging Solutions Group ...... 221 Carolina Container Company ...... 116 Neff Packaging Solutions Incorporated ...... 223 Carton-Craft Corporation ...... 117 Neun (HP) Company Incorporated ...... 224 List of Tables Carton Service Incorporated ...... 118 The Newark Group Incorporated ...... 225 Central Container Corporation ...... 119 Nordic Printing and Packaging ...... 227 Clark Container Incorporated ...... 120 Norse Dairy Systems LP ...... 228 Classic Container Corporation ...... 121 North American Container Corporation ...... 229 Climax Manufacturing Company ...... 122 The NOSCO Printing Group ...... 231 MARKET ENVIRONMENT ...... 4 Colbert Packaging Corporation ...... 124 Old Dominion Box Company Incorporated ...... 232 1 Manufacturers’ Shipments ...... 6 Columbia Corrugated Box Company ...... 125 Orange County Container Corporation ...... 234 2 Packaging Shipments by Material ...... 8 Commander Packaging Corporation ...... 126 Packaging Corporation of America ...... 236 3 Retail Sales ...... 10 ComPro LLC ...... 127 Packaging Service Group Incorporated ...... 239 4 Boxes & Other Paperboard Packaging Con Pac Incorporated ...... 128 Packaging Services of Maryland ...... 240 Demand by Type ...... 12 CorrFlex Display & Packaging LLC ...... 129 Packaging Specialists Incorporated ...... 241 5 Paperboard Boxes Demand by Type ...... 17 Corrugated Service Western ...... 130 Packaging Systems LLC ...... 242 6 Other Paperboard Packaging Corrugated Services Incorporated ...... 131 Packaging Unlimited Incorporated ...... 243 Demand by Type ...... 20 Corson Manufacturing Company ...... 132 Paper Group Holding Incorporated ...... 245 Crane Carton Company ...... 133 Park City Packaging Incorporated ...... 246 INDUSTRY STRUCTURE ...... 26 Crocker (HS) Company Incorporated ...... 134 Pharmagraphics LLC ...... 247 1 Leading Private Box & Other Paperboard Curtis Packaging Corporation ...... 135 Pioneer Packing Incorporated ...... 249 Packaging Companies, 1998 ...... 28 Custom Packaging Incorporated ...... 136 Pioneer Paper Corporation ...... 250 2 Recent Private Box & Other Paperboard Dee Paper Company Incorporated ...... 137 Pratt Industries Incorporated ...... 252 Packaging Company Acquisitions ...... 32 DeRidder Incorporated ...... 138 Precision Products Group Incorporated ...... 256 3 Selected Private Corrugated & Diamond Packaging ...... 139 President Container Incorporated ...... 258 Solid Fiber Box Companies ...... 41 Dopaco Incorporated ...... 141 Prestige Box Corporation ...... 259 4 Selected Private Folding Paperboard Dot Packaging Group Incorporated ...... 143 Pride Container Corporation ...... 260 Box Companies ...... 52 Eddleman Industries Incorporated ...... 144 Pro-Pak Industries Incorporated ...... 261 5 Selected Private Other Paperboard Fellowes Manufacturing Company ...... 145 Quality Carton Incorporated ...... 262 Packaging Companies ...... 58 Ferguson Supply & Box Manufacturing Co...... 148 Roaring Spring Blank Company ...... 263 Field Container Company LP ...... 149 Robert Mann Packaging Incorporated ...... 264 Flour City Packaging ...... 151 Rollins Container Incorporated ...... 265 Flower City Printing Incorporated ...... 152 Romanow Container ...... 266 Focus Packaging Incorporated ...... 153 Rose City Printing & Packaging ...... 267 List of Charts Four M Corporation ...... 154 The Royal Group ...... 268 Fruit Growers Supply Company ...... 156 Schiffenhaus Packaging ...... 270 Genesee Packaging Incorporated ...... 157 Scotland Container Incorporated ...... 271 Gift Box Corporation ...... 158 Seaboard Folding Box Corporation ...... 273 MARKET ENVIRONMENT ...... 4 Gould (Stephen) Corporation ...... 160 Seattle Packaging ...... 274 1 Boxes & Other Paperboard Packaging Great Northern Corporation ...... 161 Security Packaging Company Incorporated ...... 276 Demand by Market, 1998 ...... 24 Great Southern Industries Incorporated ...... 163 The Servants Incorporated ...... 277 Green Bay Packaging Incorporated ...... 164 Shillington Box Company ...... 278 INDUSTRY STRUCTURE ...... 26 Gulf States Paper Corporation ...... 166 Shoreline Container Incorporated ...... 279 1 Corrugated & Solid Fiber Boxes Hayes Manufacturing Group Incorporated ...... 168 Simkins Industries Incorporated ...... 280 Market Share, 1998 ...... 38 Hinkle Manufacturing Incorporated ...... 170 SMC Packaging Group ...... 281 2 Folding Paperboard Boxes Horn Packaging Corporation ...... 171 Southern Champion Tray Company ...... 283 Market Share, 1998 ...... 49 Howell (FM) & Company ...... 173 Southern Container Corporation ...... 284 3 Geographic Distribution of Private Box & The Hudson Paper Company ...... 174 Specialized Packaging International Inc...... 285 Other Paperboard Packaging Operations .. 63 (continued on back page) The Freedonia Group: Private Companies Report #1208 - “Boxes & Other Paperboard Packaging”

INDUSTRY STRUCTURE PRIVATE COMPANY PROFILES

TABLE III-5 Dee Paper Company Incorporated Front & Broomall Streets SELECTED PRIVATE OTHER PAPERBOARD PACKAGING COMPANIES Chester, PA 19013 County: Delaware Type Market County Code: 42045

Phone: 610-876-9285 Fax: 610-876-7040 Corporate Sales Custom Food Other Containers Materials Raw BeverageFood & Durables Annual Sales: $17 million (verified by company, 12/99) Company (m il $)* Stock Fiber Cans & Tubes Fibre Drums Milk Cartons Boxes Set-Up Pharmaceuticals/ Cosmetics Nondurables Other Nonmanufacturing Other/Unspecified

Employment: 132 SAMPLE(verified by company, PROFILE 12/99) Action Box Company 20 l l l Key Executive: Jay M. Dee, Vice President of Sales and Marketing Advance Paper Box 30 l l l

AGE Industries 27 l l l l Key Products: custom folding cartons and printed boxes Census Code SIC(s): 2657 Astro Container Group 40 l l l SIC Description(s): folding paperboard boxes, including sanitary Berenfield Containers SAMPLE50 TABLEl l l l l

Bradford Com pany 20 l l l

Burt Rigid Box 12 l l l l Dee Paper designs and manufactures custom folding cartons and printed boxes primarily for use as secondary packaging for cosmetics, perfume, health and beauty, food and candy, textile, toy, electronic, automotive, office supply and jewelry items. The PRIVATE COMPANY PROFILES Company’s capabilities include in-house preparation, offset lithographic printing in up to seven colors, web flexographic printing with in-line die cutting, die manufacturing, hot stamping, embossing, ultraviolet coating and varnishing, bar coding, windowing, gluing, Buckeye Corrugated Incorporated (continued) labeling and literature insertion. Dee operates a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing plant and a 120,000-square-foot shipping and warehousing facility in Chester, Pennsylvania. Buckeye Container is a 100-percent employee-owned manufacturer of corrugated containers. The company specializes in the production of industrial packaging, point-of-purchase (POP) displays and pallet displays. Buckeye Container purchases corrugated boxboard from such paper companies as Weyerhaeuser, and cuts, scores, folds and glues the corrugated boxboard into PRIVATE COMPANYboxes, often PROFILES with customized graphics and printing or lithographic labels. The © Copyright by The Freedonia Group, Inc. company also designs boxes as well as the tooling necessary to produce them. Buckeye Container operates a 252,000-square-foot manufacturing plant at its Buckeye Corrugatedheadquarters Incorporated in Wooster, Ohio. The company also maintains a warehouse at the 2200 Benden Drivepremises and distributes its products via its own fleet of trucks. Wooster, OH 44691 County: Wayne Although approximately 75 percent of Buckeye Container’s business is County Code: 39164corrugated packaging boxes, POP displays represent the company’s fastest- Information in profiles obtained growing segment. Examples of the company’s POP displays include full pallet Phone: 330-287-6405displays, open pallet displays, self-stackers and display shrouds. Buckeye from primary sources. Sales Fax: 330-287-6468Container’s full pallet displays, such as one developed for Hickory Farms, can Web Address: http://www.buckeyecontainer.comhold up to 850 pounds of merchandise with no supporting material but and/or employment figures http://www.tnpkg.comcorrugated. Such displays feature multiple layers of open shelves to display verified by majority of companies http://frontiernet.net/~koch1differently sized and shaped products on all four sides. Annual Sales: $70 millionTennessee (company Packaging would not is a verify, corrugated 12/99) box manufacturer specializing in Employment: 500POP SAMPLE(company packaging would and PROFILE not displays, verify, structural 12/99) design, just-in-time service programs and Key Executive: Roya broad K. Allen, range Presidentof traditional corrugated products and services, including a variety of fiberboard boxes and corrugated cardboard boxes. The company also Profiles include: Key Products: corrugatedmaintains boxes, a fulfillment inner packaging, center which foam has packaging such capabilities and in-store as fulfillment, • 120+ private producers of displays assembly work, packing, collating and other services. Tennessee Packaging’s market reaches out approximately 250 miles in all directions from the company’s corrugated & solid fiber boxes Census Code SIC(s):headquarters 2449; 2653; in Sweetwater, 2675; 2851; Tennessee. 3086; 3089 The company operates a 70,000-square- • 60+ private producers of foot manufacturing plant at that location. This plant serves over 250 customers. SIC Description(s): miscellaneous wood containers; corrugated and solid fiber folding paperboard boxes boxes; die-cut paper andTennessee paperboard Packaging and cardboard; has the paints, capability varnishes, to produce lacquers, nearly any style of • 30+ private producers of enamels and alliedcorrugated products; packaging,plastic foam including products; automatic miscellaneous lock bottoms, plastic quick-lock trays and other paperboard packaging products automatic inner partitions. The company also offers many graphics and label options, including multicolor printing and lithographic labeling. A variety of specialized products and services are also offered, such as assembled partitions; Every attempt has been made to profile all US- Buckeye Corrugatedpreassembled manufactures inner packing; corrugated hand-packed boxes, items;inner packaging, wood, foam and honeycomb based private manufacturers with total corporate foam packaging andpackaging; in-store chipboarddisplays. Theproducts; Company special operates coatings; through and plastic six corrugated products. divisions: Buckeye Container (Wooster, Ohio); Tennessee Packaging sales of at least $100 million. A selection of (Sweetwater, Tennessee); Koch Container (Victor, New York); Concord © Copyright by The Freedonia Group, Inc. smaller producers, distributors and raw material Specialty (Batesville, Arkansas); All Size Corrugated (Columbia, Pennsylvania); and Cra Wall (Indianapolis, Indiana). The Company also operates a retail suppliers is also included. packaging store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. All of the Company’s divisions manufacture corrugated boxes for use in packaging a variety of industrial and consumer goods.

More than 180 private company continued . . . © Copyright by The Freedonia Group, Inc. profiles, ranging from detailed descriptions (70% of profiles) to brief company overviews Order Information List of Private Companies Profiled (continued)

To order fill out the coupon below and mail to Specialty Industries Incorporated ...... 287 Tharco Incorporated ...... 306 The Freedonia Group, or place your order by The Standard Group ...... 289 Tim-Bar Corporation ...... 308 phone toll free (800) 927-5900 (US) or Star Corrugated ...... 290 Timberline Packaging Incorporated ...... 312 (440) 684-9600, or Sterling Packaging ...... 291 Triad Packaging Incorporated of Tennessee ...... 313 St. Joseph Packaging Incorporated ...... 292 Triangle Container Corporation ...... 314 by fax (440) 646-0484, or Stronghaven Incorporated ...... 294 Unicorr Packaging Group ...... 315 by e-mail [email protected] Summit Packaging Incorporated ...... 295 Utah Paperbox Company Incorporated ...... 319 Sumter Packaging Corporation ...... 296 Welch Packaging Group Incorporated ...... 320 Free Handling and Shipping Sutherland Packaging Incorporated ...... 297 York Container ...... 321 Sweetheart Cup Company Incorporated ...... 298 Zumbiel (CW) Company ...... 322 There is NO charge for handling and UPS Tech Pack Incorporated ...... 300 shipping in the US. Expect delivery in 3 to 5 days. Tecumseh Corrugated Box ...... 301 Outside the US, Freedonia provides free airmail Tetra Pak Incorporated ...... 303 service. If you require express delivery, Freedonia Texpack USA Incorporated ...... 305 provides this to you at cost. Save Five Percent If your order is accompanied by a check, Other Titles From The Freedonia Group you may take a 5% cash discount. If you order three (3) different titles at the same time, you can receive a 15% discount. Paper Versus Plastics in Packaging Food Containers Selected competitive paper and plastic packaging Growth in US food container demand will be fueled Credit Card Orders markets in the US are analyzed in this study, with a by expanding population, higher value-added pack- You may charge your order to either Visa, focus on the loss of traditional paper-based aging and consumer interest in convenient, highly MasterCard or American Express. Please packaging markets to plastics. The study presents packaged prepared foods. Paperboard containers include your credit card account number, historical data (1989, 1994, 1999) and forecasts to will remain the largest segment, while plastic pack- expiration date and your signature. 2004 and 2009 by market (e.g., shipping boxes, aging grows the fastest. The best end-uses will be in box inserts, drums and sacks, food containers and sauce, condiments and frozen and baked items. The serviceware, laundry detergent containers, retail study analyzes the $12 billion US food containers Orders Outside of the US food packaging, grocery bags and sacks). The study industry to 2003 and 2008 by material and market. also presents market share data and profiles leading It also profiles key firms and details market shares. Checks must be paid in US funds, drawn against companies. #1198 ...... 12/1999 ...... $3600 a US bank and mailed directly to The Freedonia #1357 ...... 12/2000 ...... $3700 Group. Wire transfers (include study # and/or invoice #) should be sent to: Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati, OH, SWIFT No. FTBCUS3C, ABA World Corrugated Boxes Corrugated & Paperboard Boxes #042000314, Account #83051814 (please include Reduced trade barriers, greater use of boxes as Underlying slow gains in US box demand will be study number and/or invoice number with all wire point-of-sale displays, and growing Internet-based an upswing in food shipments and strength in other transfers). Or you may use a credit card. shopping will support rising box demand world- markets (e.g., drugs, fast food, consumer electron- wide. Corrugated boxes will penetrate traditional ics, software). Competitive packaging and folding carton applications in the developed world, reductions in secondary packaging are spurring box and supplant traditional containers such as wooden makers to develop new designs, improve graphics, Online Access crates in developing regions. This study analyzes tout paper’s environmental profile and target new the world corrugated box industry to 2003 and markets. This study analyzes the $33 billion US The complete text and tables from our studies 2008 by grade and market, and for 24 countries and paper box industry to 2002 and 2007 by product, and reports can be accessed on our Web site six regions. The study also details market share and material and market. It also presents market share www.freedoniagroup.com and through major profiles key firms. and company profiles. commercial online hosts. #1229 ...... 02/2000 ...... $4500 #1072 ...... 01/1999 ...... $3300

ORDER TITLE PRICE Boxes & Other Paperboard Packaging — Name: Private Companies Report $3000

Title:

Company:

Division:

Street: Additional copies are $390 each per title Total: $ (no PO Box please) Enclosed is my check (5% discount) drawn on a US bank and payable to The Freedonia Group, Inc., in US funds (Ohio residents add 7% sales tax) City/State/Zip: Bill my company American Express MasterCard Visa MONTH YEAR Country:

Phone: Fax: Credit Card # Expiration Date e-mail: Signature:

WEB-1208 The Freedonia Group, Inc. 767 Beta Drive Cleveland, OH 44143-2326 USA web site: www.freedoniagroup.com phone: 800-927-5900 (US) or 440-684-9600 fax: 440-646-0484 e-mail: [email protected]