Printpack

Printpack is a US packaging company founded in 1956 by J. Erskine Love, Jr. The company began with one employee and a used cellophane bag machine. Its history page identifies Atlanta, Georgia, as the location of its early operations and describes the construction of a manufacturing plant and headquarters there in 1963. Printpack serves consumer food and non-food industries with packaging products and services for brands. The company describes itself as a provider of flexible and specialty rigid packaging. Its capabilities include flexographic, rotogravure, and digital printing, as well as manufacturing and converting. Its website also presents sustainability-related packaging structures under the Printpack Preserve name, including structures made with recycled content, recyclable plastic, paper, and compostable materials. The company says it has more than 100 How2Recycle pre-qualified structures. Printpack’s customer services include graphics and prepress support, color management, remote proofing, project management, electronic data interchange, vendor-managed inventory, and access to an analytics lab and pilot facilities. The company emphasizes customer-specific packaging, quality, supply-chain support, and sustainability. Its homepage reports more than 70 years of experience, 3,000 associates, 16 manufacturing plants, and support for 150 iconic brands. The supplied sources do not identify its current owner, parent company, or listed status.

Printpack was founded in 1956 by J. Erskine Love, Jr. According to the company’s history page, its first setup consisted of one employee—the founder—and a used cellophane bag machine. The company made its first customer shipment to Riviana Foods in 1956. In 1957, it installed a four-color Kidder stack press and moved into a new plant. In 1963, Printpack built a manufacturing plant and headquarters on Wendell Drive in Atlanta, Georgia. The company expanded beyond Georgia in 1969 with a plant in Grand Prairie, Texas, and installed what its history page describes as the industry’s first printer/adhesive laminator in Atlanta. In 1974, it broadened its capabilities through investment in blown-film technology. Its first major acquisition followed in 1978: Standard Packaging, with locations in Elgin, Illinois, and Clifton, New Jersey, which expanded Printpack’s rotogravure capabilities. In 1981, the company built a plant in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to serve customers in the Northeast. In 1982, it expanded film-making capabilities by investing in cast coextrusion technology. Printpack’s present-day website describes the company as a flexible and specialty rigid packaging provider with flexographic, rotogravure, and digital printing capabilities, alongside manufacturing and converting operations. It offers packaging-related services including graphics and prepress, analytics and pilot-facility support, electronic data interchange, and vendor-managed inventory. The company also promotes Printpack Preserve packaging structures using materials and formats such as recycled content, recyclable plastic, paper, and compostable materials. The supplied sources establish its founding and selected early expansion milestones but do not provide details about later ownership changes, current ownership, or listed status.

• 1982

  Expansion of film-making capabilities

• 1981

  Fredericksburg plant built

• 1978

  Acquisition of Standard Packaging

• 1974

  Investment in blown-film technology

• 1969

  Expansion into Texas and laminator installation

• 1963

  Atlanta manufacturing plant and headquarters

• 1957

  First press installed and new plant opened

• 1956

  Printpack founded; first customer shipment

A packaging solutions company focused on flexible and specialty rigid packaging, printing and converting capabilities, customer service, supply-chain support, and sustainability.

• Flexible packaging

  A core packaging offering supported by Printpack’s manufacturing and converting capabilities.

• Specialty rigid packaging

  A packaging category identified on the company homepage.

• Printpack Preserve™ packaging structures

  Sustainability-oriented structures that the company says may include recycled content, recyclable plastic, paper, and compostable materials.

• Development of sustainable packaging structuresOther

1. 1Preserving and Enhancing People's Lives with Printpack’s Packaging Solutionsprintpack.com
2. 2History of Printpackprintpack.com
3. 3Printpack's Best-in-Class Servicesprintpack.com
4. 4About Us - Printpackprintpack.com