The Paperboard Packaging Council

Century Club

Zumbiel Packaging

www.zumbiel.com

In 1843, Zumbiel’s founder Daniel B. Jordan began making boxes in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1876, Charles W. Zumbiel, Sr., the plant superintendant and namesake, bought the company from Mr. Jordan’s widow.

In 1880, Zumbiel’s five employees occupied a small space a block from the Ohio River; they moved a couple times before ending up back in this original location, which was ultimately destroyed by fire in 1903.

By 1940, the four sons of Charles W. Zumbiel, Sr.—C.W., Bob, Dick, and Tom—decided they needed more space and opted for a 70,000-square-foot location in Norwood, Ohio. They acquired another location in Norwood in 1965 and as their staff grew from five employees to 400, their space also grew to 600,000 square feet.

Today, Zumbiel provides a wide range of innovative paperboard packaging solutions to the beverage, pharmaceutical, and consumer markets, including flexographic, gravure, and lithographic printing; structural and graphic design services; full-service inventory management; paperboard selection options; guaranteed emergency production back-up; assured raw material supply; and machinery engineering services.