Packaging Strategies Inc

Atlas Container Corporation, founded in 1968, is one of the largest and fastest-growing independent manufacturers of corrugated packaging in the mid-Atlantic region. The company distinguishes itself from other box manufacturers on five primary levels: size, equipment versatility, service, design capabilities and company growth rate. The Atlas plant occupies approximately 200,000 square feet of manufacturing space in Severn, Md. It employs 200 full-time, nonunion workers and utilizes its trucking fleet to deliver orders to more than 850 customers throughout Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. The company s design shop is equipped with a computer-aided design-operated design table used for designing and cutting customer samples.

Graham Packaging Company is a worldwide leader in technology-based, customized blow-molded plastic containers for the branded food and beverage, household, personal care, and specialty and automotive lubricants markets. The company produced more than 20 billion units at nearly 100 plants in more than 15 countries and had pro forma worldwide net sales of more than $2.2 billion in 2004. The company is a leading United States supplier of plastic containers for hot-fill juice and juice drinks, sports drinks, drinkable yogurt and smoothies, nutritional supplements, wide-mouth food, dressings, condiments and beers. Graham Packaging Company is the leading global supplier of plastic containers for yogurt drinks and liquid laundry detergent. The company is also a top supplier in the U.S., Canada and Brazil of one-quart/one-liter plastic high-density polyethylene containers for motor oil.