Southern Packaging, LP

Established in 1960, Graham Packaging Company manufactures blow-molded plastic containers for the food, beverage, automotive and personal care industries. The company provides containers for sauces, jellies, refrigerated juices, yoghurt and nutritional drinks. It offers plastic containers for hair, skin and oral care products. Graham Packaging Company also sells bottles, jars, tubes and canisters in various specifications. The company provides design and labeling services to its customers. Its client list includes Cadbury Trebor Bassett, Johnson & Johnson Services, Procter & Gamble and Castrol. Graham Packaging Company employs more than 8,700 people in over 85 locations worldwide. Headquartered in York, Pa., the company maintains a location in Rockwall, Texas.

Printpack is one of the largest, privately held, flexible and specialty rigid packaging converters in the United States. Founded 1956, it maintains more than 20 manufacturing facilities in the U.S., England and Mexico. With annual sales of over $1.3 billion, the company employs nearly 4,400 associates. Printpack has rotogravure and flexographic printing, metallization, thermoforming, and adhesive and extrusion lamination capabilities. It operates the Gay and Erskine Love Foundation, which is an organization that makes charitable grants to a range of educational, civic, religious, medical, and health-related institutions and agencies. The company s Freshgard films provide a modified atmosphere packaging that preserves the flavor, appearance and texture of fruits and vegetables. Its product line additionally includes the Showpack bags and Re-Seal It labels. Printpack offers the Viscopack system, which is used for producing the pillow-style pouches of condiments, sauces, soups and other pumpable food products. The company serves the personal care products, confectionary, bread and fresh bakery and frozen food markets.

Located in Dallas and founded in 1951, Specialty Container Corporation is a corrugated manufacturer and flexible-film converter that offers corrugated and flexible packaging services. Its design team engineers structural designs and enhances the value of finished products by using a computer-aided design system and software. It offers both technical and artistic guidance to develop a graphically appealing package through its on-site art department. Its plant features a vast array of fabricating equipment, including a Langston four-color rotary die press, automatan litho-laminator, post-folder gluer and more than 30 other machines. It offers a full complement of postproduction services, including fulfillment, drop shipping, staged deliveries, warehouse facilities and inventory control.