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SCHOLLE CORPORATION'S HISTORY

Scholle Corporation was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1947 by William R. Scholle as a chemical company specializing in nitrocellulose-based products. In 1955, while searching for a better way to package sulfuric acid for dry charge batteries, Mr. Scholle invented the concept of bag-in-box packaging.

In time, bag-in-box packaging and filling equipment for liquids became Scholle's primary focus. Applications for bag-in-box range from dairy products to wine, from processed tomatoes to cleaning chemicals, and from soft drink syrup to ketchup just to name a few.

Eventually, as large multi-national companies embraced the technology, Scholle Corporation expanded globally to meet their needs. Scholle's numerous firsts in the packaging industry earned W.R. Scholle many honors. In 1977, he received the AIMCAL Man-of-the-Year award for his development of metallized polyester in the field of liquid packaging. In 1991, he was inducted into the Packaging Education Foundation's Hall of Fame.

As Scholle Corporation has grown, it has acquired companies with complementary technologies and/or products to our original core businesses:

1985	Vacumet Corporation, Wayne, New Jersey
1989	Smorgon's liquid packaging division, Sydney, Australia
1991	Twinpak's bag-in-box division, Pointe-Claire, Québec
1992	Assets of the Midwest division of Ultravac, Inc., Wood Dale, Illinois
1992	Bag-in-box division, Silces, Italy
1998	Rexam PLC's liquid packaging division, Gateshead, U.K.
1999	Marubeni's film metallizing operations, Himac, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
2000	J.W. Automarine, Norfolk, U.K.
2000	Rexam PLC's U.S. metallizing operations, Indiana and Tennessee
2000	Custom Packaging Systems, Inc., Manistee, Michigan
2004	Flextainer SA, Schalbach, France
2005	Proma Technologies, Franklin, Massachusetts
2007	Jerribox™, the revolutionary alternative to jug-in-box, is launched