Converting Division

Pratt Industries Converting Division is a leader in the corrugated packaging industry with its network of box factories, display manufacturing facilities, fulfillment centers and specialty packaging plants.

Because of the company’s versatility and excellent geographic range, we are able to supply packaging for durable and non-durable goods.

We serve numerous end-use markets for corrugated packaging in North America, including lighting, electronics, glass, telecommunications, automotive, pharmaceuticals, toys and sporting goods, wine and spirits, vegetables, fruit, pizza, poultry, meats and fish.

Our box making factories are positioned carefully to serve distinct local regional markets as well as National Accounts. Some plants specialize in long production runs while others focus on JIT service, displays or multi-media packaging.

We also offer custom-made packaging solutions and specialty services such as protective packaging, bulk boxes including triple wall, partitions and technical services.

The Red Head Box concept is modeled on the very successful restaurant chain Waffle House, which is based in Georgia. All their locations and operations are standardized for maximum efficiency, cost-effectiveness and customer service.

RHB – which we named after our chairman Anthony Pratt’s great grandfather Jebediah Pratt – is based on high technology equipment with a fixed head count of 25 maximum
in a 49,000 sq. ft building with low overheads, high service levels, and doing about $10
million in sales per year with a low capital cost.

The plants cater to that segment of customers which won’t go to China and which taps
into the entrepreneurial spirit of the American fabric – the small business owner who risks
his/her life savings to start a business. This is the great national resource of America.
In the spring of 2005 Pratt unveiled the first of these RHB’s – a major industry initiative
which we believe will better service our customers.

Pratt Industries has already opened 4 of these RHB’s – in Dallas, Nashville, Richmond
and Monterrey – and there are plans to start up three others by year’s end.
The sites will be Tulsa, Missouri and Pennsylvania.

Each new facility will be modeled on the others – compact and streamlined, with two or
three fast set-up machines with excellent multi-color print capability. Some will do labels
and some specialty work – but all will be focused on local service.

The RHB’s are lean in terms of people and processes to keep costs under control, and
they draw on our world class corrugators for board.

Pratt Industries – When We Say Service, We Mean It!