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History of CardPak
The shift by major U.S. retailers Wal-Mart, Costco and Target away from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) packaging and towards recyclable packaging will have a huge environmental impact, which is long overdue, critics say. Solon, Ohio-based CardPak, Inc. is helping influence that impact all the while sustaining its own future.
CardPak was formed in 1965 as a spin off from American Packaging Corp. (Ampak) focusing on skinboard manufacturing. Nine years later it entered the blister card market, and by 1990, sales reached $10 million a year.
Not just once, but twice did natural disasters almost destroy the company. In 1994, flooding (almost 3 1/2 feet on the production floor) stopped production and in 1996, record snowfall collapsed the building roof and caused a fire due to the down power lines. The flooding caused $1.3 million in damage but CardPak lost no customers during the shut down. The snow and fire caused $12 million in damages and again, no customers were lost during the two-year rebuilding process.
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