Packaging & cardboard boxes made from corrugated cardboard
A company that’s not made of cardboard.
Welcome to the website of “the smart box”. We are delighted that you are taking a look around. Let us introduce ourselves: We are a modern and successful corrugated cardboard manufacturer and processor, and therefore the ones who ensure that everything is packaged in such a way that there are no complaints.
And we do that very well. So well, in fact, that we have been growing steadily since our founding in 2010 and therefore moved into our new plant in Emsbüren at the end of 2023. That makes us a little proud and motivates us to become even better. So if you are looking for a corrugated cardboard manufacturer that is the perfect fit for you and your requirements, we should talk.
One of the most modern works in Europe. And so it shall remain.
Sustainable: Keeping an eye on the economy and one on nature.
Standing still is not an option. We are growing to become even better for you.
Logistics: Shortest routes, intelligently organized, and tailored to your needs.
It always starts with an idea.
In a nutshell, our idea is this: short transport routes for raw materials, with the greatest possible consideration for the environment.
That’s why our first factory wasn’t located on the Côte d’Azur overlooking the Mediterranean, but in the equally beautiful town of Schüttorf at the highway junction. It was directly connected to our neighbor, a corrugated cardboard manufacturer, via a transport bridge.
Since the end of 2023, the journey taken by raw materials to processing has become even shorter. With our new, state-of-the-art plant, we have also opened a new chapter: there, we are not only expanding with our corrugated cardboard processing machines, but also producing the corrugated cardboard ourselves using the latest technology. It couldn’t be any shorter.
We process our corrugated cardboard in a powerful, quasi mixed doubles team at two locations in the German-Dutch border region: at the brand-new plant in Emsbüren (formerly Schüttorf) and at our sister plant in Coevorden, Netherlands, also known as Bannink Packaging. Together, we are located in the heart of Europe, and all the highways and country roads of the world are open to us to bring corrugated cardboard to wherever you need it.
Welcome to the new plant in Emsbüren: high-tech at its finest. Computers and robots and people with heart, mind, and empathy. And mountains of corrugated cardboard and corrugated cardboard boxes.
The “smart box” – always.
We produce single-wall and double-wall corrugated cardboard and process it into folding cartons, die-cut cartons, and automatic cartons.
Exactly as you want it for your products and need it for your manufacturing processes. Of course, it doesn’t always have to be classic brown: cartons with coated paper, printed with up to 5 colors and varnish – no problem. If you need self-adhesive strips or tear-off strips for e-commerce, we can of course supply these too. Individual packaging in large quantities or rather in medium quantities – that’s exactly our thing.
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