Providing solutions for 50 years
Our History
   
   
1948 - Beginning in 1948 with three employees as a wood products business manufacturing boxes, containers and pallets Incorporation was completed in 1950.  
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1957 - The company began furnishing cost of possession, just-in-time packaging and was selling a plethora of packaging products to major industrials. This is still ongoing. In addition, the company manufactured missile boxes for Nike Hercules and others, wire bound boxes, ammunition containers, fuse and shell boxes, torpedo boxes, cannon barrel containers, and bomb cases.

 
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1965 - The company began designing and manufacturing for GE Evendale afterburner, rotor and jet engine containers. All of the above products were shipped to various locations some of which include: Aerojet General (Azusa, CA), GE Large Aircraft Division (Cincinnati, OH), Goodyear Aerospace (Akron, OH), Intercontinental Manufacturing (Garland, TX), Philadelphia Ordinance (Philadelphia, PA), Redstone Arsenal (Huntsville, AL), Thiokol (Elkton, MD and White Sands, NM), and the Watervilet Arsenal (Watervilet, NY).  
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1978 - The company was the first to implement a return program for coil platforms for the steel industry.  
     
1994 - Greenpak, Inc., is established, as a wholly owned subsidiary of GWP Industries, LLC, a combination of two packaging companies owned by GWP Industries. Greenpak experiences tremendous growth, and becomes an industry leader in the fields of package design and return logistics systems.  
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1998 - Greenpak then went on to implement return programs for expendable packaging for other global companies and provides shipping both nationally and internationally.  
   

Present Day - From its humble beginnings in 1948, Greenpak now employs over 300 people. Greenpak offers expertise in the following industries: Military, Automotive, Industrial Products, Recreational Vehicles, Steel and Petrochemical. Greenpak offers high-quality engineered packaging systems, with over 50 years of design and manufacturing experience, and develops custom return logistics systems designed to work with customers' existing packaging and businesses.

These returns programs have continued to the present day and the long term prognosis is that reuse, not recycling, will be a key component of future protection of the environment, and indeed a very significant portion of the U.S. Gross National Product.

 
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