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Some paper products are coated - mostly with plastic - or treated to improve wet strength or grease resistance. Paper and paperboard packaging like pizza trays, French fry trays, Chinese noodle soup boxes, hamburger clamshell trays, etc., are developed by printers utilizing paper-converting equipment such as tray formers.
The entrée came in a small, round metal can painted green with black lettering, with a metal key (dubbed a "twist key") to open it, packaged in a roughly square 3 in × 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in × 1 + 7 ⁄ 16 in (76 mm × 70 mm × 37 mm) cardboard box. The rest of the meal came packed neatly in a waxed paper or laminated cellophane pack.
McLane is organized into three distribution segments: grocery, food service, and beverage (servicing retail locations in the Southeastern United States and Colorado). [1] Walmart, McLane's former parent company, is its largest client, making up approximately 25% of its 2017 revenues. [citation needed] McLane was founded in 1894 in Cameron, Texas.
The Hobart Corporation is an American mid-market provider of commercial grocery and foodservice equipment. The company manufactures food preparation machines for cutting, slicing and mixing, cooking equipment, refrigeration units, warewashing and waste disposal systems, and weighing, wrapping, and labeling systems and products.
The key raw material in corrugating is paper, different grades for each layer making up the corrugated box. Due to supply chain and scale considerations, paper is produced in separate plants called paper mills. Most corrugating plants keep an inventory of paper reels. In the classical corrugator, the paper is softened with high-pressure steam.
Tastee-Freez was founded in 1950 in Joliet, Illinois, by Leo S. Maranz and Harry Axene (formerly of Dairy Queen). [2] [3] Maranz invented a soft serve pump and freezer which enabled the product, and their Harlee Manufacturing Company (a portmanteau of Harry and Leo) produced the machines which franchisees would buy and use in their respective locations. [3]
Later, in 1915 John Van Wormer of Toledo, Ohio, received the a patent for the gable-topped, wax-coated, "paper bottle," a folded blank box for holding milk, calling it the "Pure-Pak." [24] The milk carton could be folded, glued, filled with milk, and sealed at a dairy farm. [25]
Cardboard boxes were developed in France about 1840 for transporting the Bombyx mori moth and its eggs by silk manufacturers, and for more than a century the manufacture of cardboard boxes was a major industry in the Valréas area. [15] [16] The advent of lightweight flaked cereals increased the use of cardboard boxes.