Hart Industries, Inc.

What Hart Industries, Inc. does

Hart Industries, Inc. is a privately held specialty packaging converter founded in 1969 and headquartered at 5350 Holabird Ave, Baltimore, Maryland. The company designs and manufactures high-performance paper-based flexible packaging for enterprise customers, including several of the world's largest global consumer products companies. Its product portfolio is organized around five core lines — Paper Board, Coated Paper, Specialty Paper, Industrial Tapes and Wraps, and Multi-Layer Structures — and serves four primary verticals: Food and Beverage, Candy and Confection, Construction Materials, and Medical and Personal Care. Hart Industries is the largest international producer of wallboard bundling tape and structure wraps for the gypsum wallboard industry, and supplies sub-products including candy wrappers, dairy wraps, tea envelopes, baking cup stock, soap wraps, tampon overwraps, single-use medical device overwraps, pouches, packets, and sachets.

The company's underlying technology stack centers on flexographic printing (8-color process with extended gamut, automated ink blending and dispensing, spectrophotometer-based color matching, high-speed printing at 900+ feet per minute), coating and lamination (polymer extrusion, hot melt and specialty wax, water-based dispersion and emulsion), and finishing (precision slitting, perforations, die-cutting, custom palletization). Hart Industries maintains a proprietary SQF Food Safety Management System backed by a Computerized Maintenance Management System and cloud-based Graphics Management System, and uses water-based inks with full FDA Food Contact Substance traceability. It has scored 100% on all SQF audits since implementing the Safe Quality Food Program and holds SQF, NSF, and HACCP certifications.

Hart Industries generates revenue through direct, quote-based sales of custom-manufactured flexible packaging to enterprise customers. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is determined by specifications, volume, and materials. The go-to-motion is enterprise field sales with direct supply from its Baltimore facility to global brand customers. The company vertically integrates design, pre-press (partnered with Esko and DuPont), ink management, printing, coating/lamination, finishing, and supply chain management, which supports complex order management, flexible lead times, and reduced obsolescence. Sustainability is embedded into sourcing through mandated SFI/PEFC/FSC certification of paper suppliers and partnerships with domestic U.S. recycling facilities.

Name

Hart Industries, Inc.

Legal name

Hart Industries

Website

https://hartind.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1969

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Hart Industries is a privately held Baltimore-based flexible packaging converter founded in 1969 that designs and manufactures custom paper-based specialty packaging for major global consumer products companies across food and beverage, candy, construction materials, and medical and personal care verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Flexible Packaging Manufacturing

NAICS

Converted Paper Product Manufacturing (3222), Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing (322220)

SIC

Converted Paper & Paperboard Prods (No Contaners/Boxes) (2670)

akta.pro primary industry

Paper Bags & Sacks (retail, industrial, multiwall) (IMAMAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Paper & Paperboard Packaging Converting & Finishing (Die-Cutting, Gluing, Windowing, Coating) (IMALACAL), Protective Paper Packaging (Honeycomb, Paper Cushioning, Paper Wrap) (IMALACAH), Flexible Packaging Printing (Film/Poly/Paper Print) (IMALAKAG)

Keywords

• Flexible packaging manufacturing
• Paper-based packaging converter
• Flexographic printing services
• Specialty industrial packaging
• Coated and laminated paper

Headquarters

HQ city

Owings Mills

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Flexible Packaging Manufacturing: Hart Industries designs and manufactures high-performance flexible packaging products, including paper board, coated paper, specialty paper, industrial tapes and wraps, and multi-layer structures. Revenue is generated through the sale of custom manufactured packaging products to enterprise customers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Hart Industries designs and manufactures high-performance paper-based flexible packaging products, including paper board, coated paper, specialty paper, industrial tapes and wraps, and multi-layer structures. The company operates a vertically integrated converter providing flexographic printing (8-color extended gamut, water-based inks), coating and lamination, finishing, and supply chain management services to enterprise customers in food and beverage, candy and confection, construction materials, and medical and personal care markets.

Product overview

Hart Industries is a privately held flexible packaging converter founded in 1969, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, that designs and manufactures high-performance flexible packaging products. The company operates as a single unified product portfolio organized around core packaging product lines (Paper Board, Coated Paper, Specialty Paper, Industrial Tapes and Wraps, and Multi-Layer Structures) supported by value-added manufacturing services (Printing, Coating and Lamination, Finishing, and Supply Chain Management). The product line includes specialized sub-products targeting specific end-markets such as candy and confection wrappers, dairy wraps, medical device overwraps, personal care soap wraps, tea envelopes, packets and sachets, baking cup stock, and construction materials including wallboard bundling tape and corner bead wrap. The company also provides package design and development, ink management, and pre-press and graphics services to support the complete packaging supply chain.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Paper Board

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% SQF audit score on all audits since implementing the program
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and strategic.

• Local and Regional Recycling FacilitiescoreOthersHart Industries partners with local and regional recycling facilities to support domestic U.S. recycling infrastructure and minimize scrap going to landfills. Materials include paper and paperboard, HDPE, LDPE, and metal.
• Certified Sustainable Paper SupplierscoreOthersPaper suppliers are required to be certified by internationally recognized third parties including Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) to ensure sustainable forestry and healthy forest ecosystems.
• Esko and DuPontstrategicTechnology or IntegrationPartnership with pre-press equipment industry leaders Esko and DuPont to streamline pre-press production process, reduce lead times, increase pre-press flexibility, and support fast-tracked projects and last-minute copy changes.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Sonoco Products Company: Diversified global packaging manufacturer with paper-based converting, flexible packaging, and industrial paper products divisions — broader portfolio than Hart but overlapping in paper converting and CPG supply.
• Sealed Air Corporation: Global packaging company focused on protective and food packaging with significant flexographic printing and converting capability — operates in adjacent food-packaging categories to Hart.
• Novolex Holdings: Large North American paper and flexible packaging converter with broad food-service, retail, and industrial product lines — overlapping in paper converting and coating/lamination capabilities at significantly larger scale.
• Amcor plc: Global packaging giant with extensive flexible and rigid plastic packaging, and growing paper-based offerings — competes for the same large CPG accounts but at much greater scale and breadth.
• Graphic Packaging Holding Company: Large paperboard and folding carton manufacturer serving food, beverage, and consumer products — competes in CPG paper-based packaging with a heavier paperboard/carton focus than Hart's flexible packaging bias.

Direct peers

• ProAmpac: Specialty flexible packaging and paper-based packaging converter serving food, healthcare, and consumer products with coating, laminating, and printing capabilities — overlapping significantly with Hart's multi-layer structure and specialty paper offerings.
• Hood Packaging Corporation: Paper-based and flexible packaging manufacturer producing specialty bags, multi-wall sacks, and coated/laminated paper products — directly comparable to Hart's paper-substrate flexible packaging and industrial wrap portfolio.
• Kendall Packaging Corporation: Specialty flexible packaging converter producing high-quality printed films, paper/film laminations, and barrier packaging for food and consumer products — directly comparable in scale, technology, and customer mix.
• American Packaging Corporation: Privately held U.S. flexible packaging converter specializing in flexographic and rotogravure printing, extrusion coating/lamination, and pre-press services for food, medical, and consumer products markets — closely matching Hart's product mix and customer profile.
• Coating Excellence International: Specialty paper and film converter offering extrusion coating, laminating, and flexographic printing for food and industrial applications — comparable mid-market U.S. flexible packaging converter with overlapping converting capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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