Company History...
    More than 70 years here in one prime location.... performing one specialized packaging service but with ever-changing technology.... yet maintaining  a single-minded sense of commitment as your "PARTNERS IN PACKAGING".

Products
    We manufacture a variety of high quality products utilized in the dairy, candy/confectionery, and the QSR/Foodservice industry. We are committed to explore, research, develop, and test new concepts which will help both us and our customers improve overall financial return criteria.

Focus On Quality
   General Packaging's goal is to be better than the rest, with high quality cost effective products that meet exacting specifications and exceed customer expectation. It is our dedication to quality that makes General Packaging Products a leader in our industry and a favored source to many of America's larger corporations.

Business Ethics
   General Packaging Products and its employees must maintain the highest ethical and legal standards in their dealings with our customers, suppliers, fellow workers, stockholders, neighbors, friends, and competitors. Only honest, ethical, and lawful behavior will safeguard our interests, stated policies, and reputation.

Confidentiality
   General Packaging's trade secrets, proprietary information, and internal information are valuable assets. Protection of this information plays a vital role in our continued growth and our ability to compete. We can and do admit to being considered one of the best run companies in the packaging industry. Our solid history has offered tremendous opportunities to all within General Packaging and to our valued customers. Disclosure of any further proprietary information within the industry or to the general public could jeopardize our ability to remain in the forefront of our markets. Should you have further questions please contact us directly.

Community Efforts
   We believe it is our responsibility to be effective neighbors while also maintaining a very effective environmental program. Our commitment as a water based converter has been viewed favorably by our customers and their needs. The history of General Packaging Products and our commitment to community have benefited many organizations throughout the years and continues today.

Performance Expectation
   Our customers expect a lot of General Packaging Products and likewise we expect a lot from the entire system, including our customers and suppliers. We welcome suggestions from everyone on improving processes to decrease costs, increase quality, cut lead-times, and so on. We strive to accurately deliver orders on time and every time. To produce a quality product, we must purchase quality materials and we look for those suppliers who share the same commitment to quality as we. We also believe prices should be competitive and reasonable to the entire system. While we all benefit from lower prices, we will not sacrifice quality for price. From time to time we ask for not only supplier assistance but also customer assistance to solve problems, provide technical help, and provide data that assures our ability to Deliver Total Quality. All this is a accomplished through on-going communication regarding monthly volumes, inventories, deliveries, and overall total satisfaction of meeting an or exceeding the high standards we have all set for each of our organizations. You may rest assured we at General Packaging Products will do our utmost to take the best possible care of your needs.

Company Profile...
    We are pleased to introduce General Packaging Products to you. Its strategic focus is to develop, manufacture, and market specialty packaging and foodservice papers that meet customers requirements in every detail. Founded in 1932, we like to think of General Packaging Products as a low profile local company with an eye to the would. Our people share experience and expertise in developing and producing products that serve the specialized needs of today's world.

    Over the past three years, we have consistently and purposefully invested significant capital in our operation in support of our commitment to remain a customer's dedicated "PARTNER IN PACKAGING". Our strategic plan is one that focuses on growth in capacity, expertise, and innovation. This is evident in our new state-of-the-art equipment and the addition of our second facility on Hamlin in Chicago. We have now created a system geared toward meeting the needs of today's markets and enabling us to respond to the demands of tomorrow.

    Though specialized coatings and laminations, General Packaging Products offer barriers to grease, moisture, odor and other challenges of the dairy, confectionery, packaged goods, fast food and food service industry. Among just some of the end-users for General Packaging Products are coated wrappers for butter, ice cream novelties, candy/confectionery; and sandwich wraps (both coated and foil laminated).

    Our market knowledge opens the door to creativity in developing new products for value added niches while our high levels of service and product quality differentiates General Packaging Products in the marketplace. We invite short runs and special-make orders for many products. Inventory and delivery programs are tailored to customer needs. It is the high quality and consistency, in meeting or exceeding your specifications and performance, that has earned us significant amounts of business with major companies both here and abroad. We take pride in the development of committed, long-term relationships with customers because we think that's how business should be done.

    We are committed to the markets we serve and place customer satisfaction at the top of our priority list. Our people, products, and customers breed excitement. We're proud to be affiliated with customers who believe in quality; customer whose business we're pleased to have earned -- and kept. As an integral member of our "PARTNERS IN PACKAGING" we invite you to come see how our team can help you with your packaging needs and share in our proud history of 70 years.

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