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Changing with the times

The origins of what is now Menasha Packaging Company, with 1,800 employees and more than 20 facilities in North America, have nothing to do with printing. What ultimately became Menasha Corporation (Menasha Packaging's parent company) began as a wooden pail factory. The company has endured through a Civil War, the Great Depression, two World Wars, and, most recently, the Great Recession. Through it all, the company has transformed itself and realized new business opportunities at every turn. By the end of the Civil War, the company was not only producing wooden pails, but had become a full woodenware manufacturer. During the period spanning from 1916 through the 1930s, the company transformed itself and first entered the corrugated box business. The packaging corporation motivated its employees to learn this new business and develop expertise in paper, which at that time was a new product for the company. In 1995, the company reorganized into seven business groups, including the packaging group.