Signode
of Newton Road, Mumbles, Swansea. Also of Bream's Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, EC4. (1947)
1913 Chicago inventor, Ellsworth E. Flora, and his partner, J. Fremont Murphy, organized the Seal and Fastener Company.[1]
1916 The Signode name was adopted.
1923 Signode Britain was formed as the first foreign subsidiary.
1936 Signode International Ltd was formed to consolidate all international businesses.
1946 Signode developed the first fully automatic power strapping machine, revolutionising the packaging business.
1962 Plastic strapping and tools were developed and sold.
1964 Signode Steel Strapping became Signode Corporation.
1982 Signode Corporation became Signode Industries Inc, in one of the largest leveraged buy-outs in American business history at that time.
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