SMC Packaging, Group

Located in Springfield, Mo., the SMC Packaging Group is comprised of the Southern Missouri Containers company, the Arrowhead Containers company and the Wonder State Box company. The company offers a complete line of corrugated and related packaging products and services. It provides assistance in structural design and display artwork. Its services include customer materials planning, online ordering, printing plates, computer-aided design and fulfillment and other customized services. The company uses in-folds and lock bottoms, graphics, presseal, packaging supplies and automatic litho labeling systems. It uses presseal method on outer cartons, as well as inner packaging as it eliminates the process of gluing, taping, stitching and sealing.

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 460 North Belcrest Avenue, in Springfield, Mo.

Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation is a premier packaging company in North America. It is one of the industry s leading integrated manufacturer of paperboard and paper-based packaging, and a leading producer of containerboard, including white top linerboard, corrugated containers, multi-walled and specialty bags and clay-coated recycled boxboard. Smurfit-Stone also recycles paper, annually processing and selling more than 6.5 million tons, and is a leading producer of solid bleached sulfate, folding cartons, flexible packaging, labels and point of purchase displays. The company provides solutions to a variety of customers, large and small, throughout North America. Founded in 1998, Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation maintains facilities in Springfield, Mo.