Packaging Express (CONT’D FROM PAGE 42)
where their father, Matt and Andrew’s grandfather, T.J. McLaughlin, started Waterloo Corrugated Box Co. in 1938. McLaughlin achieved success after investing in a 67-inch corrugator and building three sheet plants, eventually becoming Waterloo Container Corp, a forerunner of the sheet feeder concept.
section of our machine, which prevented it from running as fast as it could. That one little piece of information will help make us much more profitable in the future.” Bell, who is 31, appreciates the value and fun of work-
Today, Packaging Express remains full of family: in ad- dition to cousins, there are husbands and wives, fathers and sons, uncles and nephews, and brothers among the employees. “This is a big reason for our great culture and we think we do right by them because we’re all family, CONTINUED ON PAGE 46 Operator TJ Hallett at the feed end of Packaging Express’s Emba Ultima, a fast set up, three color machine that can con- vert up to 500 sheets per minute.
ing in the family business. Boxes are, after all, in his DNA as well. He and Matt Davis grew up in the same neigh- borhood and their mothers grew up together in Iowa,
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