One plant. Since 1951.
Seventy five years converting paperboard in the same corner of southwest Michigan.
A supplier to manufacturers, not to shoppers
Almost nothing that leaves this plant carries our name. It goes inside somebody else's product, in four places nobody ever looks.
Under a
seat trim
Behind a
cabinet
Between
pallet loads
Behind a
wall
Nobody inspects it twice. Nobody notices it until it fails.
That is what shapes the business. A component that disappears into an assembly line has to arrive the same every time, and seventy five years of arriving the same is the whole proposition.
Fibre Converters started converting paperboard in Constantine, Michigan in 1951 and still runs from One Industrial Drive. Extrusion coating, laminating and die cutting all happen on the same site, which is unusual, and it is the reason a specification can be held from raw board through to a finished part.
Converting since
1951
75
Years in
operation
03
Processes
on site
07
Industries
supplied
What running all three processes actually changes
No handoff
Board is not shipped between a coater, a laminator and a cutter. It moves between operations inside one building, so it is not re handled, re stacked or re acclimatised three times.
One accountability
When a dimension moves, there is no argument about which supplier caused it. The same people who laminated the board also cut it.
Construction freedom
Grades, liners, coatings and ply counts are combined against your requirement instead of being restricted to whatever a single upstream mill happens to stock.
Finished parts
Up to 84 in by 75 in, a part leaves as a component rather than as a sheet somebody else still has to convert.
Who buys a component nobody sees
Manufacturers across seven industries, from vehicle assembly to housebuilding, specify laminated paperboard from Constantine. The trim above is built on it.
Supplied to
- 01Ford
- 02General Motors
- 03IKEA
- 04Adient
- 05Magna
- 06Volvo
- 07Navistar
- 08Sonoco
- 09Graphic Packaging
- 10Northrop Grumman
- 11Pulte
- 12Lennar
You will talk to somebody who knows the line
Enquiries go to specialists who can talk through a construction rather than to a form queue.
If the answer is that your part is not a fit for paperboard, you will get that answer early instead of after a sampling cycle.
Start a conversationSeventy five years is only useful if it is on your part
Send the specification and find out whether it runs here.