Channeled Resources

In 1925, the company changed its name to Chicago Cardboard Company, reflecting its additional product range; die-cut displays, jigsaw puzzles and cardboard shirt collars. Chicago Cardboard also began manufacturing art boards for artists and picture mat boards for a small but growing market of picture framers. In the 1950 s the company became Crescent, named for the crescent moon shape often used for mat board samples. Crescent is now owned and managed by the fourth generation of the Ozmun family, with modern manufacturing facilities located in Wheeling, Ill. Crescent also has distribution warehouses in Las Vegas, Nev. and Ellwangen, Germany. Today, Crescent serves the framing, commercial art, fine art, and photography markets in the U.S. and over 100 countries worldwide.

Channeled Resources Group specializes in liner, recycling and pressure-sensitive solutions. The company also produces specialty paper and film products. It has expertise in processing roll stock and silicone-coated papers. CRG accepts mill broke, obsolete stock, and butt and jumbo rolls. The company sorts and bales material ranging from office papers to corrugated. It provides custom-coated and polycoated paper and film in a wide variety of basis weights, calipers and release coatings. CRG s Maratech brand offers pressure-sensitive paper and film for flexographic and offset printers. The company serves customers throughout the United States, Canada, England, Russia and China. It is headquartered in Chicago.