page_title: Printpack
section_title: Founding and Early Years
hierarchical_section_title: Printpack / History / Founding and Early Years
caption_attribution_description: English: Printpack first bag machine
context_page_description: Printpack is a flexible and rigid packaging company specializing in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia Printpack has multiple plants in The United States, China, and Mexico. Printpack services many notable companies, including multiple Fortune 500 companies, and their products are shipped worldwide.
context_section_description: Printpack Inc. was founded in Atlanta, Georgia by J. Erskine Love Jr., an alumnus of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1956 as a printing company whose original product was cellophane bags. By 1960 Printpack had begun creating in-house graphic designs and branching out of the Southeast to making sales in the Midwest. In 1963 Printpack moved to a new 30,000 square-foot location which would remain the company’s headquarters for decades. When the company celebrated its first decade Printpack was servicing over 50 clients including Frito-Lay.
caption: Printpack's first bag machine
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