Celebrating Black History Month

Feb, 2021

Did you know? Dr. Carter G. Woodson, known as the Father of Black History Month, is a Historian who recognized an absence in the educational system of impacts made by African Americans in the United States and sought to change that fact by creating Black History Week in 1915.  Carter kicked it off with the […]

Hood Container participates in ICPF’s Virtual Student / Executive Dialogue Dinner

Jan, 2021

Hood Container’s very own Jeff Craig, VP of Marketing and Sales, recently participated in International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF)’s VIRTUAL Student /Executive Dialogue Dinner Series, the first of which was hosted on December 16th, 2020. As a response to the pandemic, moving this series to a virtual platform allowed for over 35 students from 10 […]

Hood Container Corporation partners with Indeed for virtual hiring event

Dec, 2020

On December 9th Hood Container hosted it’s first ever virtual hiring event with great success. Partnering with Indeed, we sourced 77 interviews and made offers to 37 new team members. This event was coordinated through our Human Resources departments across nine different facilities in order to recruit talented machine operators. Due to such a positive response, […]

Honoring Our Veterans

Nov, 2020

Today we would like to take a moment to thank and acknowledge all who have served this country, but in particular all of our veterans within Hood Container.  We would like to express our deep gratitude and appreciation to our veterans for their brave service to our country. We acknowledge the sacrifices that our servicemen […]

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 […]

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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 […]

Kelsea Potthast

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 […]