Our Business
Novolex® is a leader in packaging innovation, choice, and sustainability. We manufacture products with paper, plastic, and renewable materials for food packaging, delivery and carry-out, food processing, and industrial markets. Our products offer superior performance, provide convenience, reduce food waste, and support food safety and hygiene for the benefit of millions of consumers who use our products every day. We meet their needs with a wide variety of products backed by a commitment to quality embraced by our more than 10,000 employees. With 55 manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe, including two world-class plastic film recycling facilities, we are close to our customers and ready to serve them through our Food & Delivery and Performance Solutions segments.
Segments and Markets
Our diverse family of brands — coupled with our ability to develop new, custom products — enables us to offer a breadth of superior packaging choices to meet customer specifications. We take pride, as well, in working closely with our customers to identify opportunities to provide innovative solutions to meet their emerging needs. Novolex operates in two broad segments that serve four customer end markets.
The Food & Delivery Segment
The Food & Delivery segment provides products for food packaging as well as delivery and carry-out markets. Food packaging customers include quick service and traditional dine-in and carry-out restaurants, institutional dining and cafeteria settings, and entertainment venues such as stadiums and arenas that offer food. Food packaging products include a variety of high-quality plates, bowls, cups, utensils, clamshells, serving tray liners, platters, salad containers, and more. Delivery and carry-out markets include restaurants that prepare food for delivery or carry-out as well as grocery and convenience stores that sell baked goods, salads, food platters, and more.
Food & Delivery Business Brands
Products include paper and rigid plastic food containers as well as flexible paper and plastic retail bags.
De Luxe™
Duro®
Eco-Products®
Hilex®
Polar Pak®
Waddington North America®
Waddington Europe®
The Performance Solutions Segment
The Performance Solutions segment provides products for food processing and industrial markets. Food processing customers include commercial beverage manufacturers, produce suppliers, and dairy and confectionary producers. Products include custom wrappers for confectionary and dairy products, frozen food packaging, and produce bags. Industrial customers include businesses in the e-commerce, agriculture and horticulture, banking and security, construction, sanitation and janitorial, and healthcare sectors.
Performance Solutions Business Brands
Products range from trash can liners for institutional customers to moisture barrier film for building and construction applications.
Shields®
Heritage®
Innovation
Innovation drives our business. Every day we strive to create exceptional value for our customers that no one else can offer. Expert product development teams design products that can reduce the impact of packaging on the environment, offer convenience, reduce costs, minimize food waste, and exceed customer expectations. Our continuous drive to innovate has enabled us to develop unique products that solve challenges around the globe. Recent products offer a range of innovative solutions, and many are patented or have patents pending. At Novolex, we never stop innovating.
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Novolex is a privately held company. For investor-related questions, please contact: Janet Gibbons – Vice President & Corporate Treasurer or Dennis Norman – CFO
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