Colad Group LLC

Established in 1998, Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation manufactures paper-based packaging products. It provides containerboards, corrugated containers and point-of-purchase displays. The company also collects recycled paper and nonpaper-based recovered materials. Its facilities are equipped with modern machines that recycle newsprints, corrugated containers, aluminum cans and plastic milk jugs. The company provides display materials to various grocery and drug stores, supermarkets and convenience stores. It also offers consultation and graphic design services. Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, with a location in North Tonawanda, N.Y., operates more than 150 facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It employs over 25,000 people and offers several employee benefits, including paid vacations, tuition reimbursements and pension plans.

Hammer Packaging is a multicolor packaging printer of sheet-fed cut and stack labels, box wraps and premium packets, along with roll fed and water-base, flexo-graphic pressure sensitive labels, wrap labels and form and fill labels for consumer products. Some of the services offered by Hammer are remote proofing systems, wide format printing capabilities, embossing and paper, film or foil printing. Herman J. Meyering founded the company in 1912 as Genesee Valley Lithographic Company. Hammer Packaging moved to its 90,000-square-foot facility in West Henrietta, N.Y., in April 1999. The company also operates two subsidiaries in Rochester, N.Y., J. MacKenzie, a paper sheeting and converting facility, and New Frontier Packaging, a flexo-graphic packaging printing operation founded in 1992 and 1999, respectively.