Milprint, Inc history

Judson Moss Bemis's son, A. Farwell Bemis, assumed the presidency upon his father's retirement in 1909.

The company moved to larger quarters on Florida Street in 1910 and gradually expanded its operation to produce a wide variety of flexible packaging materials.

Anatomical illustrators used transparencies to show the layers of the body as early as the 1920s.

In 1936, the company’s name was changed to Milprint, Inc., and over the years, it acquired plants across the country to meet its worldwide demand.

Blue Star Foods, Inc. – Theo L Sachs, president; C H Clark, vice-pres; Harry T McNamara, vice-pres; John M Sachs, sec; potato chip manufaturers, 2434 Fremont St Source: 1941 Polk’s Rockford City Directory

In 1942, Richard Lasker patented a new printing process for Milprint Inc., a Milwaukee-based company.

Figure 1 in Kronfeld, The Human Eye in Anatomical Transparencies, 1943.

In 1946, the trans-vision process was applied again to McHugh’s paintings in for The Human Ear in Anatomical Transparencies.

In 1952 the company made a firm commitment to research and development with the construction of its own research laboratory and pilot plant in Minneapolis.

MACtac, established in 1959, also has shown excellent growth as a pressure-sensitive materials supplier.

By 1965, to reflect the company's growing diversity, the name was officially changed from Bemis Bro.

In 1966 Bemis common stock was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

In 1978 Howard Curler was named Bemis' new CEO. With Curler's appointment, the restructuring of Bemis began in earnest.

Curler also launched a $140 million capital expenditure program in 1980, in effect betting close to half of the company's assets to become a first-class producer, rather than converter, of sophisticated multi-layer films for high-margin, specialty food products.

Clearly Bemis seems to have regained its stride, building upon its preeminence in the milling industry of former days with a host of enviable competencies in the complex food markets of present times. For example, the purchase of Milprint in late 1990 made the company a leading supplier in printer packaging for the candy industry.

Bemis' flexible packaging business, which generated $858 million in 1992 revenues, comprises everything from paper bags for pet food to see-through resealable cheese packaging and cold-temperature resistant packaging for frozen vegetables.

Likewise, the acquisition of Princeton Packaging in February 1993 placed Bemis at the top in bread packaging.