About American Packaging Corporation

American Packaging Corporation is a privately held company with over one hundred years of experience in the manufacture of flexible packaging specifications. The Kardon family founded company in Philadelphia in 1902. Orignally named American Bag & Paper, for the first half century the company was a specialized bag producer. In 1966, American Bag merged with Northern Packaging, an extrusion laminating and coating company located in Rochester, NY. In 1972, the company diversified into rotogravure printing by acquiring Ameripak located in Columbus, WI. Stanley Schottland, CEO of American Bag, purchased the company in 1986 and renamed the company American Packaging Corporation. With the company flourishing, the Schottland family moved the pre-formed products segment to Story City, IA and diversified their product offering by adding a number of PDI pouch fabricating machines. In 1997, the Story City facility was expanded and flexographic printing and laminating was added to enhance the company’s converting capabilities to meet the increasing demand for flexographically printed packaging specifications.

Extrusion Lamination and Coating Division - Rochester, New York, USA

Rotogravure Printing and Lamination Division - Columbus, Wisconsin, USA

Flexographic Printing, Laminating and Preformed Products Division - Story City, Iowa, USA

American Packaging Corporation is one of the top flexible packaging converter in the United States. The company bases it’s Corporate Philosophy on providing high levels of Quality, Service and Technical Innovation. To achieve this goal, the owners re-invested over $140 Million in the last 13 year by expanding facilities, purchasing state of the art converting equipment, upgrading existing machinery, creating an analytical laboratory with modern instrumentation to conduct analytical, physical property and shelf stability testing, and rewarding the employees for the company’s success. 

American Packaging Corporation’s expertise is superior rotogravure & flexographic graphics reproduction combined with adhesive laminating and tandem extrusion laminating. In addition to extrusion and adhesive laminating multi-ply customized specifications, American Packaging Corporation applies cold seal, heat seal and hot melt coatings. It can die cut and emboss when required. American Packaging Corporation holds seven product patents for pre-formed pouch and bag technology.

American Packaging Corporation provides nationwide field technical support. This group is available for on-site troubleshooting, pre-audits, trial supervision, and regularly scheduled technical service support visits.

With over 550 employees, American Packaging Corporation is one of the largest privately held packaging companies in the United States. We pride ourselves in providing superior levels of quality, service and innovation. Customer satisfaction is the key to our success.