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Stanelco Selects Elwood Packaging, Inc. as Exclusive Manufacturer of FrogPack Family of Products
ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2005--Stanelco PLC, (LSE:SEO), has signed an agreement with Chicago-based Elwood Packaging, Inc. to serve as the exclusive manufacturer throughout North America of Stanelco's FrogPack
family of unique container products.
Stanelco and Elwood are continuing discussions on the production of Stanelco's PetalPack floral container products.
Elwood, which operates distribution centers throughout the
United States and Canada, will produce the packaging in
corrugated cardboard or paperboard configurations.
"With Elwood, we found a manufacturer that understands the importance of our FrogPack products protecting clients' goods," said Stephanie Morgan-Fisher, Director and CEO of North American Operations, Stanelco. "Our FrogPack and PetalPack products come in a range of unique shapes and sizes. Elwood offers the ability to produce our products in a variety of materials while still maintaining the packaging integrity, durability and protection essential to our customers."
"We will begin
almost immediately producing Stanelco's FrogPack family of products," said Dennis Splitgerber, sales manager, Elwood Packaging, Inc. "Combined with Stanelco's solid product line, we will produce
the ultimate protection in packaging products."
FrogPack is a rugged, high-impact resistant packaging application. Designed to withstand substantial punishment, FrogPack provides retailers with a way to face the challenge of minimizing breakage to goods while packaging, shipping and transporting highly fragile merchandise. FrogPack's most distinguishing characteristic is its ability to minimize and virtually eliminate damage to fragile goods being shipped to wholesalers and retailers or directly to consumers.
About Stanelco PLC
The Stanelco Group of companies (the Group) has brought together expertise in radio frequency (RF) technology, RF applications and biodegradable material sciences to create a revolutionary range of packaging technologies.
Stanelco's philosophy is that new products and processes must offer solutions and applications which:
-- give higher added value,
-- are greener, more environmentally sustainable than those they replace,
-- and have protectable intellectual property rights.
Stanelco was founded in 1953 and is a world leader in the development of radio frequency technologies for processing polymers for edible and packaging applications and the design and manufacture of optical fiber technology, induction heating and dielectric welding equipment. Stanelco's Current developments include GREENSEAL food tray lidding technology, STARPOL (starch / pva blended material), FrogPack high impact low cost packaging format, CradleWrap range of biodegradable air cushion packaging, soluble tape, 100% water-soluble films and adhesives, Biodegradable Airbag (void fill) packaging, water-soluble detergent capsules, edible sachets and waste packing. More information can be found at http://www.Stanelco.co.uk or http://www.FrogPack.com.
About Elwood Packaging, Inc.
Since 1947, Elwood Packaging has employed ways to create the packaging solutions to help clients drive their business forward. From an experienced, knowledgeable staff of sales engineers and structural/graphic designers located in Chicago, to distributors across the country, Elwood works with individual clients to achieve practical, affordable and unique packaging solutions.
http://www.elwoodbox.com