Placon Corporation

For over 50 years, we have been successfully combining thermoforming design experience, manufacturing expertise and new materials to deliver above our customers’ expectations in the consumer retail, food and medical device packaging markets. We create packaging breakthroughs that inspire better engagement between people and products. Consumer retail packaging: An ISO 9001 company headquartered in Madison, WI, Placon offers creative custom thermoformed packaging that offers the highest shelf appeal to stock plastic clamshells and trays guaranteed to protect your product and grow your bottom line. And with our EcoStar® post-consumer recycled PET material option, you can boost your sustainability messaging while helping our environment with a 100% recyclable product made with up to 90% curbside collected PET bottles and thermoforms. Food packaging: Looking for custom or stock plastic food packaging that ranks high in consumer satisfaction? Placon thermoformed and injection molded PET, PP and HDPE food containers are the right solution for processors, supermarkets, convenience stores to restaurants looking for tamper-evident, hinged, deli, sustainable, cater tray and bowl options. Searching for a cost-effective, eco-friendly plastic packaging product with high clarity and a strong sustainability message? Our EcoStar FDA food-grade contact post-consumer recycled PET material made using recycled PET bottles and thermoforms. Medical device packaging: We have manufacturing facilities located strategically near Elkhart, IN, and Minneapolis, MN that design and manufacture turnkey medical packaging systems, helping pharmaceutical and medical device OEMs navigate through the often complex packaging design and validation process getting new products to market quickly and cost-efficiently. From initial concepts, prototyping, tooling and clean room production, we offer complete packaging systems from double sterile barrier trays to simple systems consisting of a Tyvek® lid and rigid thermoform. EcoStar (sustainable post-consumer recycled PET): Placon’s EcoStar recycling and extrusion facility reclaims and recycles over 1 billion curbside collected PET bottles and thermoforms a year. Placon offers extruded, high-clarity, recycled PET rollstock for retail thermoformed packaging applications with up to 90% post-consumer content as well as a line of FDA-food contact approved ultra-clear food-grade PET sheet that is 100% recyclable. Leading the country in closing the loop on thermoformed plastics.

Living sustainable is not just something we say, it is our company vision. We strive to be an industry leader in sustainability and reducing our overall carbon footprint by implementing a variety of energy saving programs, water recycling, and working with local governments and municipalities. Our sustainability goals don’t stop with just our facilities. We have been using recycled PET since the early 90’s with key retail partners. In 2011 we introduced our EcoStar® material that is made from 75% or more, post-consumer recycled PET. We purchase post-consumer recycled PET bottles and thermoforms from material recovery facilities (MRF’s) to help keep over 1 billion PET bottles from going to the landfills each year. By diverting these bottles from landfills, we are able to close the loop and create sustainable results.