Signode
From Graces Guide
of Newton Road, Mumbles, Swansea. Also of Bream's Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, EC4. (1947)
- 1913 [1] Chicago inventor, Ellsworth E. Flora, and his partner, J. Fremont Murphy, organized the Seal and Fastener Company.
- 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, revolutionizing the packaging business.
- 1947 Advert for Tensional Steel Strapping. (General Section, Earls Court, 1st Floor, Stand No. 609) [2]
- 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.
- Note: (11/08)
- The company has its own website: [2]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] About Signode
- ↑ 1947 British Industries Fair Advert 331; and p250