Hood Container now Amazon APASS certified!
Nov, 2020
Hood Container is now Amazon certified to design frustration free packaging! Now listed on their website, Hood Container can offer frustration free packaging to those looking to meet those qualifications. With the goal of lowering costs, enhancing sustainability efforts, decreasing environmental impact and enhancing customer experience, Amazon has made this a growing need. Frustration free […]
Hood Container Chicago Installs New Fosber Corrugator
Oct, 2020
Hood Container continues to invest in our future growth. Introducing our newest installation, a state of the art 98” Fosber Corrugator. This investment will allow us to better serve our clients with a greater breadth of products and faster speed to market. We can provide: Corrugated Sheets – multiple flutes Rod Coated Sheets – capability […]
HCC and Breast Cancer Awareness
Oct, 2020
This month kicked off Hood Container’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month spotlighting the importance of preventative and diagnostic screening. Bringing attention to this topic is personal to so many of our employees as Breast Cancer affects 1 out of every 8 women. To highlight awareness, each team member received a HCC pink logoed water bottle with […]
Saint Francisville Mill Expansion in Louisiana
Jul, 2020
https://gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/2589 Gov. Edwards, Hood Container Announce $50 Million Mill Expansion Company to expand paper capacity, retain 306 jobs at West Feliciana Parish mill Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Senior Vice President Wayne Morgan of Hood Container of Louisiana LLC announced the company’s paper mill in West Feliciana Parish will complete a $50 million efficiency […]
HCC proud to partner with ICPF in our new student internship program!
Jul, 2020
Hood Container Corporation welcomes Kelsea Potthast as our newest student sales intern this summer. Kelsea Potthast, University of Florida (business administration/ marketing major and packaging science minor, May ’21) has acquired a student sales internship this summer at Hood Container Corp. “I am passionate about developing synergy between the engineering principles of corrugated packaging and […]
HCC Burbank: Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 Pallet Display takes home 2020 SHOP! Bronze OMA Award
Jun, 2020
HCC Burbank took home another award for their Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 Pallet Display. It was an OMA Award Bronze Winner at the 2020 SHOP! Awards. This display was entered in the Club Store category and was designed for Microsoft. They developed a pallet solution that not only improved the Costco Member Warehouse experience but […]
2020 SHOP! Award OMA Silver Winner: Funko Wetmore Forest Half Pallet Display
Jun, 2020
Award winners HCC Burbank gained an additional Silver OMA Award at the 2020 SHOP! Awards with this Funko Wetmore Forest Half Pallet display. It was entered in the category of Entertainment, Games and Toys and created for Funko. The team wanted to bring the Wetmore Forest title to life. Wetmore Forest was created to depict […]
Game of Thrones The Final Season Walmart WOW display takes home 2020 SHOP! Gold OMA Award
Jun, 2020
This Game of Thrones The Final Season Walmart WOW display was created by our Burbank team and earned them a 2020 SHOP! Gold OMA Award! Designed for HBO Home Entertainment and entered in the Mass Merchandise category, this display was designed to be impactful at retail while immediately conveying it as a recognizable and pop-culture […]
Hood Container Celebrates Safety
Jun, 2020
Celebrating safety at Hood Container! Three of our facilities (Chicago, Asheville, and Greensboro) were awarded the “Safety Excellence Award” from The Corrugated Container Industry. Our Lincolnton facility was also awarded the Hood Companies, Inc. 2019 Safety Award. Congratulations to all these facilities for their efforts in keeping our employees safe!
Welcome Back to Work
Jun, 2020
Hood Container created a “Welcome Back to Work” kit for our clients and prospects. This kit contains ESSENTIAL items for working safely during these unprecedented times. The kit was structurally designed in our Cincinnati office, digitally printed in Nashville, die cut in our Chicago converting facility, and assembled in our Chicago contract packaging facility. The […]