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UN COMIENZO HUMILDE

1953

Cornelius Vogel founded Valley Packaging Supply in his basement. From the 1950’s through the early 1970’s, the company slowly but steadily grew to five machines and one additional employee. Vogel also moved the company to the second story of a hay barn he rented in DePere, WI. During this time, VPS primarily produced cellophane and poly bags.

1976

Rick Czachor purchased the company. He and two employees worked at Valley Packaging Supply.

Growth Accelerates

1977-1986

The company experienced multiple building moves and additions to create space for more machines. The company had six full-time employees during this time.

1987-1991

Business really started to diversify as the flexible packaging movement gained momentum. Valley invested in complex, high speed machinery and expanded into stand up pouches and multi-layer bags.

Time for Something New
Embracing the Future

2002

Lance Czachor assumed the role of President of Valley Packaging Supply.

2002-2016

Valley outgrew its new home quickly and underwent three more building additions, expanding its total footprint to 185,000 square feet. Business also continued to diversify into box pouches, spouted pouches, and more. The total employee count rose to 130+ and Valley now housed over 40 production lines.

2018

Valley Packaging Supply and Phoenix Converting in Itasca, IL became the first two companies to launch a new flexible packaging consortium called Advanced Converting Works (ACW) founded by Chris Wrobel.

2019

Advanced Converting Works continued to grow and added three new subsidiary companies to the ACW family: Precision Color Graphics (Franklin, WI), Specialty Packaging Technologies (Elgin, IL), and American Pouch Converters (Elgin, IL). This grew ACW’s total capacity to 200+ production lines spanning five facilities and over 350,000 square feet of production and design space, making them one of the largest pouching operations in North America.