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Connecticut Container Corp.Corporate Office455 Sackett Point RoadNorth Haven, CT 06473Tel: 203-248-2161Fax: 203-248-0241

Massachusetts Container Corp.300 Cedar Hill StreetP.O. Box HMarlborough, MA 01752Tel: 508-481-1100Fax: 508-481-9029

Nutmeg Container Corp.Protective Packaging Division100 Canal StreetPutnam, CT 06260Tel: 860-963-6727Fax: 860-963-6732

K&H Corrugated330 Lake Osiris RoadWalden, NY 12586Tel: 845-778-3555Fax: 845-778-7417

Vermont Container Corp.473 Bowen RoadBennington, VT 05201Tel: 802-442-5455Fax: 802-442-6910

Technology Container Corp.207 Greenwood StreetWorcester, MA 01607Tel: 203-248-2161Fax: 203-248-0241

Technology Container Corp.Crossroads Trade Center1221 E. Centre Park BoulevardBldg 1, Ste 120Desoto, TX 75115Tel: 203-248-2161Fax: 203-248-0241

One Group…Many Packaging Solutions

One Group…Many Packaging Solutions

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Idea generation. Innovative solutions.Anything can fit in a box — except for the knowledge, creativity and production skills that bring your product to packaged perfection. At Unicorr, we think beyond the box — and pour in custom design and artwork, efficient manufacturing and distribution. We won’t let your box be just a box. It becomes a packaging solution that helps drive business.

Ready… set… stop…?Yes. Because that’s what we do — stop and invest time to completely understand your goals for every packaging and display project, to learn and analyze your unique challenges from start to finish. Ultimately, you’ll get more from Unicorr. Customers get full team support — packaging audits and solutions, packaging design, production and support services, a wide product line and capabilities, and the benefits of Unicorr’s North American network of manufacturers.

UNICORR PACKAGING GROUP

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Good things come in good packaging! Whatever kind of packaging you need, Unicorr’s wide array of capabilities and many years of experience can turn problems into business-improving solutions. So, tell us your challenges and goals and we will help you come up with a package that not only protects, but influences the end-user and your bottom line.

Unicorr, your solution to success!

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One Group…Many Packaging Solutions

Unicorr is a multi-plant, family-owned and operated business. Practicing lean thinking to promote efficiency, sustainability and the elimination of waste along with a customer-partnership philosophy, has lead to Unicorr’s success and growth. Unicorr reaches across multiple facilities and warehouses with a full complement of capabilities and a wide product offering. Since 1946, Unicorr has distinguished itself by its integrity and its manufacturing, design and service excellence, being among the largest converters of corrugated products and protective packaging in the Northeast.

Beyond the NortheastIn response to the requirement for vendor consolidation and globalization, we have become a member of the Packaging Alliance Network (PAN), enabling us to provide a full line of products and services beyond the Northeast.

The Packaging Alliance Network (PAN) is a North American consortium of like-minded, independent, regional packaging manufacturers operating with a simple plan: to provide a consistent, full line of products and services throughout North America for our customers. Our affiliation with PAN opens the door to national and global services.

Unicorr facilitiesConnecticut Container Corporation / North Haven, CT - Corrugator PlantMassachusetts Container Corporation / Marlborough, MA - Corrugator PlantNutmeg Container Corporation - Protective Packaging Division / Putnam, CT - Sheet Plant, Foam and Wood FabricationK&H Corrugated / Walden, NY - Sheet PlantVermont Container Corporation / Bennington, VT - Sheet PlantTechnology Container Corporation / Worcester, MA and Desoto, TX - Reusable Plastic Corrugated ContainersWarehouses / Sharon, VT and Manchester, NH

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For more than half a century, the Unicorr philosophy of investing in people, efficiencies, innovation, technology and equipment has helped our customers reach a higher level of productivity, sales and profitability. Working along side our customers, we provide the products, technology and creativity needed to produce custom packaging solutions that resultin mutual lasting success.

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Unicorr’s combined group of facilities, along with our geographic and product alliances, afford us the capacity and capability to provide a wide variety of corrugated packaging products and services. We can produce small runs at our sheet plants or full truckload quantities at our corrugator facilities. Our products range from RSCs and die cuts to complicated point-of-purchase displays and retail packaging.

Our wide range of capabilities include various flute profiles, complicated gluing (trays, auto lock bottoms, displays, etc.), rotary and flatbed die-cutting, flexo folder gluers with in-line die-cutting, enhanced graphics, litho labeling, and coatings.

We take pride in our equipment, maintenance and upgrade programs and have the capability to use our multiple facilities as backup if needed.

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Green initiatives for sustainabilityUnicorr has made an active and ongoing commitment to the efficient use and preservation of environmental resources. We ensure that all applicable environmental laws and regulations are complied with while continually implementing sustainability initiatives. In partnership with our customers, we pursue solutions in developing environmentally efficient packaging products and services.

Reduce - Reuse - Recycle.

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To optimize your packaging system, we use our structural design and graphics departments to make sure your boxes are the right size and strength with the right graphic design and layout. To do this, we evaluate all your requirements including presentation, protection, warehousing, production needs, and shipping. To complete the packaging program, we can provide inventory management, electronic communications, and the flexibility to fit your needs.

CORRUGATEDSOLUTIONS

Continuous improvements and recent enhancements to our multicolor direct print capabilities enable us to provide enhanced graphics - effectively and economically. Unicorr manufactures litho-laminated packaging and displays in a variety of flute profiles.

Displays/RetailPackaging

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Command consumer attention! When you choose Unicorr, you’ll have a team of talented problem solvers and innovative thinkers on your side. To support your marketing objectives and packaging requirements, our design team will respond to your structural and graphic challenges to produce displays that enhance and help sell your product.

We provide designs, prototypes and samples, custom-built to your requirements with state-of-the-art CAD and graphics software systems. Our in-house designers and artists are available to provide both structural and graphic expertise and will meet with you either at your facility or at one of our locations.

With our many capabilities, we can suggest packaging solutions that blend efficiency with economy, providing you with many different budgetary options and recommendations.

In addition, we provide fulfillment services to complete the package and improve overall efficiency with one-stop shopping appeal.

DISPLAYSOLUTIONS

Unicorr provides you with customized combinations of packaging materials – all of which are manufactured in our own facilities – to cushion, support and protect your products from shock, abrasion, and handling. From custom crates and pallets, to foam-lined, shock-mounted skids to the resiliency and excellent strength-to-weight ratio of foam and corrugated… Unicorr’s packaging, assembly, engineering, and manufacturing teams will work with you to help determine the most efficient combination of wood, foam, and corrugated to provide you with the inner and outer packaging options needed to meet your shipping requirements.

Protective PackagingKey Capabilities:

Technical Design:

• Talented, experienced technical designers • Performance testing to ISTA standard shock and vibration requirements

Wood:

• Wooden crates, pallets and custom engineered skids • Reusable crates • Customized on-site crating • Shock-mounted skids • Barrier bagging to protect from moisture and prevent corrosion • CNC Router for precise drilling and cutting

Foam:

• High-speed die cutting • Welding and molding • Convoluting

Services:

• Fully engineered assemblies, one part number for multiple components • Storage hub for your other vendors’ product combined for delivery to your dock with our packaging

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What happens when you ask the right questions and actively listen to the answers? Great ideas and solutions develop. Unicorr will partner with you to understand your packaging, crating, shipping and handling requirements in order to generate ideas and suggestions aimed at developing customized solutions.Unicorr offers a full line of cushioned inner packaging options. Based on your shipping and cushioning needs, quantity and budget, the following are a few of the protective packaging options available from Unicorr:

- PE: Polyethylene - PU: Polyurethane- FIP: “Foam in Place”- HT Wood- EPS: Expanded Polystyrene- Molded Pulp

PROTECTIVESOLUTIONS

Easy Set Up and Knockdown

Reusable/Plastic Corrugated

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Product Benefits:• Pre-automated, EZ set up designs: Available in automatic locking bottom designs which eliminates the time, material and labor associated with box set up

• Custom designs: Unicorr can customize a plastic box to your packaging requirements: Automatic Locking Bottom Designs; RSCs; Die Cuts; Bulk Bins

• Tough Boxes: Ideal for harsh environments where moisture, humidity and ESD are a problem. Corrugated plastic’s performance is unaffected by water

• Superior Product Protection: Unicorr’s plastic boxes offer better product protection and crush resistance than conventional paper boxes

• Free Environmental Survey: Unicorr can help you analyze the environmental benefits and ROI of a reusable plastic versus existing paper systems

Cutting EdgeMany of the world’s leading companies use our reusable, pre-automated, plastic corrugated boxes and bulk packaging systems. Achieve two goals: cost reduction and sustainability with reusable corrugated plastic boxes and bulk bins.

Cost ReductionIf you, or your suppliers (incoming material), can reuse your boxes, then Unicorr can help drive down your costs to just a few pennies per shipment. Our plastic boxes can be reused hundreds of times.

SustainabilityReusable packaging generally reduces green house gases, energy and solid waste by over 60%. Improve your green scorecard!

Reduce Reuse Recycle

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Sustainability throughlean thinking

At Unicorr, we take environmental responsibility seriously. Throughout our organization, we work toward minimizing any adverse impacts our products or processes may have on the environment.

Our commitment and dedication to identifying efficiencies in the supply chain has resulted in continuous improvement and sustainable growth practices.

SUSTAINABLESOLUTIONS

Protective Packaging

Demand the most from your packaging, distribution and marketing requirements - after all, the packaging is a reflection of the quality of the product inside. Unicorr’s design team has the technical expertise, store channel knowledge, products, tools, and creativity to meet any and all of your design requirements. We will assist you in selling and protecting your product.

Our designers are not only experienced in corrugated displays and packaging, but they will listen to your needs and will recommend the best structural design solution using packaging alternatives such as foam, wood, plastic corrugated, molded fiber, and various other types of materials. Our creative team will design a package that takes the following into consideration: cost efficiency, protection, graphics, packing, sustainability, shipping, and inventory management.

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Our in-house artists can take your concept and create an eye-catching package or display. Let our software and skills come to you. Our structural designers and artists are available to support our sales team at your location for onsite design, graphics presentations and audits.

DESIGNSOLUTIONS

Unicorr’s experience, expertise and value-added services have made us thepreferred supplier to hundreds of customers regionally, nationally and globally.

Your Unicorr sales, service, design, and engineering teams will work withyou to:

n Design customized packaging solutions

n Produce samples to test under existing operating conditions

n Perform auditing services to run cost analysis on existing packaging, processes and systems, and savings analysis due to suggested enhancements n Generate optimization models on box quantity analysis and delivery systems

Unicorr provides inventory management services including, JIT and KAN-BAN for inventory efficiency. We strive to provide you with ideas and solutions that will result in package and packing cost reductions, savings in ‘soft’ costs, transportation, space, handling, and improved cash flow.

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Packaging optimization software can be used for package size, strength, pallet loading, and freight costs. To support our design and auditing services, we continuously invest in software and hardware upgrades and enhancements. On-site packaging audits will help optimize your packaging process from manufacturing and packing to your customer.

EFFICIENCYSOLUTIONS

Structural Design & Graphics

Unicorr’s got you covered, inside and out. Let us provide you with one-stop-shopping ease and convenience for all of the packaging items you need, including:

n Stock & custom printed carton sealing & gummed tapes & dispensersn Filament tapes, masking tapes, machine length carton sealing tapesn Machine & hand grade stretch film n Steel & plastic strappingn EPS & biodegradable loose fill

Packaging Products, Supplies & Equipment

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n Labels, packing list envelopes & shock watchesn Poly bags & zip lock bagsn Folding cartonsn Paper tubesn Partitionsn Angle board, corner board & edge protectorsn Thermoformingn Thermoform paper dual ovenable traysn Thermoform paper food (meat, poultry, & fish) traysn Molded pulp corners & edge protectionn Molded EPS cornersn Custom printed bagsn ESD, barrier products & static shielding bagsn Sustainable packaging productsn Stock boxesn Packaging equipmentn Kraft rolls & sheeted papern Void fill systems (inflatable packaging & paper systems)n Case sealers & erectorsn Strapping equipment & tools

Whatever you might need to go in, on, or around your boxes, containers, displays, and custom packaging, Unicorr has it all. We offer a complete line of packaging supplies – another value-added service that supports our commitment to helping our customers achieve the highest levels of productivity and profitability.

SUPPLYSOLUTIONS

Idea generation. Innovative solutions.Anything can fit in a box — except for the knowledge, creativity and production skills that bring your product to packaged perfection. At Unicorr, we think beyond the box — and pour in custom design and artwork, efficient manufacturing and distribution. We won’t let your box be just a box. It becomes a packaging solution that helps drive business.

Ready… set… stop…?Yes. Because that’s what we do — stop and invest time to completely understand your goals for every packaging and display project, to learn and analyze your unique challenges from start to finish. Ultimately, you’ll get more from Unicorr. Customers get full team support — packaging audits and solutions, packaging design, production and support services, a wide product line and capabilities, and the benefits of Unicorr’s North American network of manufacturers.

UNICORR PACKAGING GROUP

ideasThinking beyond the box

Good things come in good packaging! Whatever kind of packaging you need, Unicorr’s wide array of capabilities and many years of experience can turn problems into business-improving solutions. So, tell us your challenges and goals and we will help you come up with a package that not only protects, but influences the end-user and your bottom line.

Unicorr, your solution to success!

success

One Group…Many Packaging Solutions

One Group…Many Packaging Solutions

ideasThinking beyond the box

contact:

www.unicorr.comConnecticut Container Corp.Corporate Office455 Sackett Point RoadNorth Haven, CT 06473Tel: 203-248-2161Fax: 203-248-0241

Massachusetts Container Corp.300 Cedar Hill StreetP.O. Box HMarlborough, MA 01752Tel: 508-481-1100Fax: 508-481-9029

Nutmeg Container Corp.Protective Packaging Division100 Canal StreetPutnam, CT 06260Tel: 860-963-6727Fax: 860-963-6732

K&H Corrugated330 Lake Osiris RoadWalden, NY 12586Tel: 845-778-3555Fax: 845-778-7417

Vermont Container Corp.473 Bowen RoadBennington, VT 05201Tel: 802-442-5455Fax: 802-442-6910

Technology Container Corp.207 Greenwood StreetWorcester, MA 01607Tel: 203-248-2161Fax: 203-248-0241

Technology Container Corp.Crossroads Trade Center1221 E. Centre Park BoulevardBldg 1, Ste 120Desoto, TX 75115Tel: 203-248-2161Fax: 203-248-0241

One Group…Many Packaging Solutions

One Group…Many Packaging Solutions

ideasThinking beyond the box

contact:

www.unicorr.com

A member of

www.packallnet.com

www.unicorr.com