Packaging Service Co., Inc. history

In 1810, Peter Durand, an Englishman, patented the use of tin-coated iron cans instead of bottles to preserve food.

Though cardboard itself had been invented several hundred years earlier in China, the cardboard box wasn’t created until 1817 by Sir Malcolm Thornhill.

Fast forward to the Industrial Revolution: this era (starting from about 1760-1840) gave way to major technological advancements, as the demand for better quality packaging increased.

Several years after the first commercial paper bags were created in 1844, Francis Wolle invented a machine capable of mass-producing paper bags.

Screws and hammers were being used to open metal packaging until 1866.

In 1870 New Yorker John Wesley Hyatt was given a patent for "celluloid” produced in high temperatures and pressure and has low nitrate content.

Note: these boxes weren’t corrugated yet, that wouldn’t be invented until 1871.

In 1875 can opener was invented.

The development that affected glass packaging the most was the patenting of the "automated rotary glass manufacture machine” in 1889.

In the 1900’s, paper and cardboard became more important packaging materials.

In 1912, Brandenberger built a machine to manufacture cellophane film.

The discovery of polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), what saran resins and films are made of, was discovered accidentally by Ralph Wiley in 1933.

The first aluminum canned food came out in 1959.

By 1965, over 75% of brewers in the United States were using Fraze’s can.