Printing And Packaging Inc history

A year later (1810), Peter Durand of Britain received a patent for tinplate after devising the sealed cylindrical can.

The first paperboard carton was produced in England in 1817.

Aluminum particles were first extracted from bauxite ore in 1825 at the high price of $545 per pound.

Styrene was first distilled from a balsam tree in 1831.

Vinyl chloride, discovered in 1835, provided for the further development of rubber chemistry.

Collapsible, soft metal tubes, today known as “flexible packaging,” were first used for artist’s paints in 1841.

Paper bags were first manufacture in England in 1844.

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.

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.

Milprint started business in 1899 as the Milwaukee Printing Company.

Founded in 1911 and chartered in the state of North Carolina as Winston Printing Company, Inc., the business has evolved to the present day, now operating as Winston Packaging.

Oliver Printing & Packaging was founded in 1924 by Wilfred G. Oliver.

But a sturdier multi-walled paper sack for larger quantities could not replace cloth until 1925 when a means of sewing the ends was finally invented.

Engraph's roots lie in the Herald Publishing Company, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based commercial printer that was founded on April 1, 1933, when John H. Jordan leased a failing printing company.

In 1935, AG Gordon was the first to introduce photo lithography in NC and pioneered the new process of printing promotional materials in full color.

It was incorporated on July 6, 1936 as the Herald Press, Inc.

In 1938 the company began to produce and market paper and die-cut paper labels that were used by bakeries, candy manufacturers, and the textile industry.

"Watch Your Stop! A 5 Point Plan For Better Selling," The Cellophane Division of the DuPont Company, 1939.

Polyethylene Terephthalate (PETE) was patented in 1941.

Norman headed Package Products, which was incorporated in June of 1945, while continuing to work at Herald Press.

The company's first flexographic printing press was delivered in early 1946, and, by trial and error, the company learned to use it.

Although Package Products and the Herald Press were separate entities, they remained closely allied; for example, in 1951 Package Products moved to an addition to a Herald Press facility.

"The Impulse Payoff," [DuPont Cellophane], DuPont Company, 1952.

On November 1, 1955, the two firms merged, and T. J. Norman headed the new company, which was called the Package Products Company, Inc.

In 1956 the company went public, and profits and production both rose in the coming decade.

In June 1957, Love moved into new quarters, and in July the newly delivered press began operation.

The firm's client base soon began to grow, and in 1958 Love hired an art director so he could develop in-house the graphic designs he believed were key to successful packaging.

The first aluminum canned food came out in 1959.

1960: An outside sales representative is hired to seek Midwest business.

But the Herald Press was sold in 1964 to a local competitor as the company found it best to focus of printing.

Between the year it went public and 1968, sales rose some 420 percent, from $2.38 million to $10 million.

1969: A new plant is built in Texas; acquisitions begin with Southeastern Packaging.

An acquisition that would prove crucial to its future success was that of Screen Art, Inc., of Knoxville, Tennessee. It bought the Atlanta-based Imperial Packaging Corporation in December of 1970.

Next was the Colonial Press, Inc., in February of 1972; in July of that year Package Products Company became Colonial Packaging Corporation.

The growing company decided to reorganize and create a management company to contain the various parts of the company, and on October 1, 1973, the name of the company was changed to Engraph, Inc.

Printpack rose to the challenge, and the company's employees took special care to make sure print runs conformed to the new higher standards after UPC use began in 1975.

By 1976, when Printpack celebrated its 20th anniversary, the company's employment ranks had grown to 469.

The company's stock, which traded on NASDAQ, had risen 25 percent in the previous decade, and its sales had grown steadily since 1978.

1980: a new technical center is opened for testing and analysis of products.

In 1983, the company expanded further with the purchase of a Richmond, California, printmaking facility that made co-extruded plastic film for high density polyethylene products.

In 1984, the third generation James Andrew Gordon was promoted to Company president as the business continued to grow and add new equipment.

The year 1985 saw the firm win a prestigious packaging industry award for its pressurized plastic tube for Wilson tennis balls.

It was reincorporated in Delaware in May of 1987.

Colonial was sold in March 1988 after proving itself to be a disappointing acquisition.

Soon thereafter, in January of 1989, Engraph bought the Patton division of Alford Industries, Inc., for $23 million in cash.

In July of 1990, Engraph created a joint venture with Ramallo Bros.

Its net income was $10.2 million, an increase of 28 percent. It also sold Package Products-Flexible in 1991, the core around which Engraph had originally grown, because it did not gel with the niche approach.

By 1992 Engraph also supplied all graphics materials to Coke, Pepsi, Doctor Pepper, and Seven-Up for their fountain machines in fast-food retailers.

Long an independent company, Engraph was purchased by Sonoco Products Corporation in 1993.

With Sonoco's clout, Engraph stood poised to enter the international marketplace, especially following the 1994 acquisitions of Mexico City-based Print Art (which then became Engraph Mexico, and the English firm M. Harland & Sons Limited.

In 1995, Printpack opened a new 206,000-square-foot manufacturing facility adjacent to its plant in Grand Prairie, Texas, which would be equipped with six- and eight-color flexographic printing presses, adhesive and extrusion laminators, and new ink mixing and control systems.

In August 1996, Printpack completed its biggest acquisition to date--the Flexible Packaging Group of the James River Corporation.

For the fiscal year ending in June 1998, the company reported annual sales of $850 million.

The Company set up a digital division for small format short run projects which was moved offsite in 1999 and called Live Wire Graphics while the traditional operation began using the name Winston Packaging to more accurately reflect the type product being produced.

By 2000 the unit was back in the black, earning £1.7 million on sales of £62 million.

In February 2002, Printpack formed another minority-owned joint venture with Woodrow A. Hall called Diversapack.

In September 2003, the company bought a 105,000-square-foot thin-wall container thermoforming facility in Newport News, Virginia, from competitor Amcor, Inc.

The fourth generation, Russell Lindsay Gordon, joined the Company in 2008 in customer service and operations.

In 2012 Winston Packaging made a major capex investment in world class equipment by installing the only 42” wide press to run 20,000 sheets per hour in North America along with new pre-press system and finishing equipment.

With our first acquisition in 2016 came our name.