The packaging industry utilizes many materials like glass, plastic, paper, and corrugated board. Packaging companies source large quantities of the materials, machinery, and services they need on ThomasNet.com. These include items like assembly systems, automated case sealers, balers, bag sealers, bottle cappers, and more. Major packaging companies like Ball, Crown Holdings, MeadWestvaco, Owens-Illinois, Sealed Air, and Smurfit-Stone Container use ThomasNet.com to find suppliers.

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ConAgra Foods
Berry Plastics Pactiv Corp.
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House of Packaging, Inc. Sigma Supply, Inc. Techmag
International Paper Sonoco Products
International Paperbox Stephen Gould Corp.
Kyana Packaging Industrial Supply Temple-Inland
LBU, Inc. Uline
Multi-Wall Packaging Corp.
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2. What the Packaging Industry Buys:
What Sellers Are
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Assembly Systems Foam Packaging Prefeeders
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Balers Hot Melt Adhesives Pulp Molding Equipment
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Clamshell Denesters Non-Woven Fabrics Machinery
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Fillers Pumps
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President
Maxi Container
Fortune 500 Packaging Companies That Use
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Ball MeadWestvaco Sealed Air
Crown Holdings Owens-Illinois Smurfit-Stone Container
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