Food Chain - Issue 213 - August 2026 | Page 56

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Founder and President Steve Schroeder joins us to elaborate on the ongoing investments across creative werks, as well as the scale of its operation.“ We have approximately one million square feet of manufacturing and filling space across several plants in the Chicagoland area,” Steve opens.“ Within that footprint, we operate more than 70 production lines that support hundreds of packaging formats, from everyday programs to automated seasonal work. We do various types of filling projects: bagging, variety bagging, flow wrapping, and any other type of specialty packaging.”
The breadth of the company’ s services is the result of continued, disciplined investment, and it has added an average of one new capability per year since 1999.“ Since our founding, we’ ve continued to add new capabilities,
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