Novolex Holdings

Shields manufactures and sells flexible packaging solutions for customers worldwide. The company offers security and heavy duty bags; food, industrial, shrink, and protective packaging solutions; and specialty products, and other stock items ranging from can liners and pallet covers to stock printed ice bags. It also offers lab and technical, and prepress and platemaking services.

Burrows Paper Corp. operates four paper mills and six packaging converting facilities domestically and abroad. Burrows maintains the highest standards and holds certifications from ISO 9001, HACCP, Forest Stewardship Council, Sustainable Forest Initiative and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification. Burrows incorporates nearly 100 years of papermaking experience into its food packaging line of products and is one of only a few companies capable of producing light weight printable tissue paper. Burrows offers machine glaze and machine finish paper grades for a variety of uses from medical and food packaging to innovative industrial applications.

Heritage Bag Company is a second generation, privately owned business that was founded in 1973 as a manufacturer of plastic trash bags, can liners and food bags sold to institutional and commercial customers. Today, it’s one of the leading institutional can liner producers in North America, has nearly 800 employees and operates six world-class manufacturing sites, with strong, long term relations with its distribution partners. Heritage’s products serve the health care, food service and hospitality, industrial, education, office building, building services and transportation markets.

Packaging Dynamics Corporation manufactures flexible packaging and specialty papers. The company operates in three units: Thilmany Papers, BagcraftPapercon, and International Converter. The Thilmany Papers unit offers specialty bleached and unbleached lightweight paper products, such as sandwich wraps, box closure taping systems, insulation backing, microwave popcorn bags, confectionary cups, and medical drapes and steel interleavers. It also provides pressure sensitive release base papers to provide backing for self-adhesive materials, including business/consumer labels, airline baggage tags, food and consumer ID labels, industrial tapes and sealants, feminine hygiene, medical products, and laser and inkjet applications. This unit has paper mills in De Pere and Kaukuana, Wisconsin. It also produces paper machines for other manufacturers in Jay, Maine. The BagcraftPapercon unit converts paper, film, and foil into various specialty food packaging products, including specialty bags, sheets, wraps, interfolded tissues, and pan liners, as well as butcher, freezer, and locker paper products. It has facilities in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Georgia, and California. The International Converter unit produces adhesive and film extrusion laminations, such as base stock materials that are used in the production of labels, bags, pouches, composite cans, lidding, and blister packaging. It also produces facing materials that are used by the building materials companies in producing insulation products in North America and Europe. This unit has facilities in Ohio, Mississippi, and Wisconsin. Packaging Dynamics Corporation's products are used in food and non-food packaging, consumer, medical, foodservice distribution, supermarket, bakery, restaurant, packer processor, retail, and industrial packaging applications. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. As of June 9, 2006, Packaging Dynamics Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Thilmany, LLC.