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Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation is a leading integrated manufacturer of paperboard and paper-based packaging. It operates in two segments, containerboard and corrugated containers, and consumer packaging. It is a leading producer of containerboard, including white top linerboard and recycled medium, corrugated containers, point-of-purchase displays, multiwall and specialty bags and clay-coated recycled boxboard. The company is one of the world s largest collectors and marketers of recovered fiber. It also is a leading producer of solid bleached sulfate, folding cartons, flexible packaging and labels. Smurfit-Stone operates approximately 250 facilities located primarily in the United States, Canada and Mexico and employs roughly 35,000 people. The company was founded in 1968 and has its headquarters in Chicago. One of its plants is located at 965 Muirfield Dr., in Hanover Park, Ill.

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.

Established in 1947, Diecrafters provides finishing solution services for commercial clients. It specializes in shrink wrapping, stitching, drilling, inserting, perforating, die cutting, foil stamping, embossing, assembling and binding, as well as trimming, collating, and inline folding and gluing. The company s products include media holders, booklets, pop-ups, mailers and greeting cards, and presentation, pocket, capacity and expandable folders. It additionally provides table tents, displays, danglers, shelf talkers, forms, CD jackets, sleeves, calculators, and straight and reverse tuck cartons. Diecrafters also specializes in a range of materials, such as paper, plastic, vinyl, mylar and paperboard. The company offers computer-aided design, cost estimates, packaging, labeling, shipping and delivery services. Diecrafters is headquartered in Cicero, Ill.