About
This Company
1913 |
Chicago inventor, Ellsworth E. Flora,
and his partner, J. Fremont Murphy, organize the Seal and Fastener
Company. |
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1916 |
The "Signode" name is adopted. |
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1923 |
Signode Britain is formed as the
first foreign subsidiary. |
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1936 |
Signode International, Ltd. is formed
to consolidate all international businesses. |
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1946 |
Signode develops the first fully
automatic power strapping machine, revolutionizing the packaging
business. |
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1955 |
Signode is listed on the NYSE. |
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1962 |
Plastic strapping and tools are
developed and sold. |
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1964 |
Signode Steel Strapping becomes
Signode Corporation. |
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1965 |
Signode develops its own
polypropylene strapping, called Contrax®. |
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1971 |
Corporate offices move to Glenview,
Illinois. |
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1977 |
Tenax® polyester strapping is
developed. |
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1982 |
Signode Corporation becomes Signode
Industries Inc. in one of the largest leveraged buy-outs in American
business history at that time. |
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1983 |
Tape and stretch film packaging
systems are added to Signode's product line, making Signode the premier
full-line supplier of protective packaging systems. |
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1986 |
Signode is acquired by ITW and
restructured as Signode Packaging Systems. |
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