Pro-Pak Industries

What Pro-Pak Industries does

Pro-Pak Industries is a privately held, family-owned corrugated packaging manufacturer headquartered in Maumee, Ohio. Founded in 1948 as Production Shippers Box Co. by Charles L. and Adele Deiger to build wooden crates for Toledo's Willys-Overland Motors, the company rebranded to Pro-Pak Industries in 1969 and is now managed by a third generation of the Deiger family. Operations are conducted from two Maumee manufacturing locations equipped with multi-color presses and die cutters, supported by more than 150,000 square feet of warehouse space and a company-owned truck fleet, with headcount in the 200+ range.

The company sells four core product lines — Industrial, Retail, Point-of-Purchase (POP) Displays, and Protective packaging — and wraps them with a layered service stack that includes design and structural engineering, in-house testing (compression, drop, vibration), Just-In-Time inventory, fulfillment (shrink-wrapping, palletizing, stretch-wrapping, warehousing, logistics), consulting, and full program management. The operating model is vertically integrated from raw material sourcing through final delivery, and quality is certified to ISO 9001. Customer evidence indicates use cases across industrial manufacturing, automotive parts, solar panel shipping, retail/consumer goods, and branded point-of-sale displays.

Pro-Pak goes to market through direct enterprise field sales with a consultative, quote-based pricing process. No public pricing, customer list, revenue, funding, or partnership data is disclosed, and the company does not advertise a global footprint — operations are regional across the U.S. Midwest. The company has no disclosed M&A history, no institutional investment, and no AI/ML capability claims in the available data.

Name

Pro-Pak Industries

Legal name

Pro-Pak Industries

Website

https://pro-pakindustries.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1948

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Pro-Pak Industries is a third-generation, family-owned corrugated packaging manufacturer in Maumee, Ohio, producing industrial, retail, POP display, and protective packaging for Midwest manufacturers, automotive parts suppliers, and consumer goods companies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corrugated Packaging Manufacturing

NAICS

Corrugated and Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing (322211)

SIC

Papers & Allied Products (2600)

akta.pro primary industry

Corrugated Packaging & Boxes (RSC, die-cut, bulk bins) (IMAMAHAA)

Headquarters

HQ city

Maumee

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Corrugated Packaging Manufacturing: Designs, manufactures, and delivers custom corrugated packaging solutions including industrial, retail, protective, and POP display packaging. Revenue generated through product sales with associated services including design, testing, JIT inventory, fulfillment, and program management.
2. Packaging Consulting Services: Comprehensive consulting services to help businesses optimize corrugated packaging solutions, including analysis of packaging requirements, supply chain efficiency improvements, and sustainability recommendations.
3. Program Management Services: Oversees entire packaging programs from initial concept design to final delivery, coordinating design, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality control.
4. JIT Inventory Services: Just-In-Time inventory management ensuring packaging solutions are delivered precisely when needed, minimizing excess inventory for clients.
5. Fulfillment and Logistics Services: Includes in-house shrink-wrapping, product packaging, container filling, palletizing, stretch-wrapping, warehousing, and logistics with company truck fleet.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Pro-Pak Industries designs, manufactures, and delivers custom corrugated packaging solutions across four product lines—Industrial, Retail, Point-of-Purchase (POP) Displays, and Protective Packaging. The company operates two manufacturing facilities in Maumee, Ohio equipped with multi-color presses and die cutters, and complements its core products with design, testing, JIT inventory, fulfillment, program management, and consulting services.

Product overview

Pro-Pak Industries is a family-owned corrugated packaging manufacturer offering a portfolio of four core packaging product lines—Industrial, Retail, Displays (POP), and Protective—complemented by a suite of eleven supporting services. The core products provide specialized packaging solutions for different market segments (manufacturing, retail, point-of-sale, and shipping protection), while the service offerings enable end-to-end support including Design and Testing, JIT Inventory, Fulfillment (with warehousing and logistics), Consulting, Program Management, ISO Quality Management, and Vertical Integration. This integrated approach allows Pro-Pak to serve as a one-stop shop for corrugated packaging needs, managing everything from material sourcing and design through manufacturing and final delivery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Industrial Packaging

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced excess inventory through JIT inventory management
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• International Paper: One of the largest global producers of corrugated packaging and containerboard. Competes with Pro-Pak in industrial and protective corrugated segments, with substantially greater scale, capital resources, and national account coverage.
• Smurfit Westrock: Global leader in containerboard and corrugated packaging following the Smurfit Kappa–WestRock combination. Competes with Pro-Pak across industrial, retail, and protective corrugated end markets, with dramatically greater scale, mill integration, and geographic reach.
• Cascades: North American-based manufacturer of recycled-based corrugated packaging, tissue, and specialty products. Directly comparable product portfolio to Pro-Pak with an emphasis on sustainable fiber-based packaging serving industrial and retail customers.
• Pratt Industries: Privately held US corrugated packaging manufacturer with vertically integrated paper mills and converting operations. Highly comparable to Pro-Pak in product mix (industrial, retail, POP, protective corrugated) and focus on sustainability, though significantly larger and national in scope.
• Packaging Corporation of America: US-based integrated producer of containerboard and corrugated products serving industrial and retail customers. Directly comparable in product category to Pro-Pak, with the advantage of integrated mill assets and national converting footprint.

Broad incumbents

• Greif: Global industrial packaging manufacturer offering corrugated, rigid, and containerboard products across multiple end markets. Overlaps with Pro-Pak in industrial corrugated and protective packaging but operates at significantly larger scale with broader product breadth.
• Sonoco Products: Diversified global packaging manufacturer serving consumer, industrial, and healthcare end markets. Comparable to Pro-Pak in protective and industrial packaging adjacencies while offering a much broader portfolio including rigid plastics and metal containers.
• Graphic Packaging: Major producer of paperboard packaging including folding cartons, food and beverage packaging, and related substrates. Comparable to Pro-Pak in retail and consumer-facing fiber-based packaging though differentiated by focus on paperboard rather than corrugated.

Regional players

• Pactiv Evergreen: North American manufacturer of foodservice and food merchandising packaging including fiber-based cartons and containers. Adjacent to Pro-Pak in protective and retail packaging, with overlap in corrugated-based products though differentiated by foodservice end-market focus.
• Atlantic Packaging: Privately held US corrugated and paperboard packaging manufacturer with strong presence in the Southeast and East Coast. Comparable to Pro-Pak as a similarly sized, family-influenced regional converter serving industrial and retail customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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