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Empire EMCO: 120 Years of Solving Packaging Challenges
Founded in 1906, Empire EMCO has evolved from a local bottle and barrel business into a full-service rigid packaging solutions partner helping manufacturers source, design, engineer, manage, and supply packaging.
When Was Empire EMCO Founded?
Empire EMCO traces its history to 1906, when Max Fagin started Empire State Bottle and Barrel from his garage. Over the next 120 years, the business expanded its packaging capabilities, supplier relationships, geographic reach, technology, and services. Today, Empire EMCO is a family-owned rigid packaging solutions partner headquartered in the Buffalo, New York area.
Key Milestones in Empire EMCO's History
More than a century of change has transformed both the packaging industry and Empire EMCO. These milestones show how the company has continued to evolve while remaining focused on packaging problem solving, customer relationships, and long-term value.
From Packaging Distributor to Packaging Solutions Partner
Empire EMCO's history is about more than longevity. It is the story of continually expanding what we can do for customers.
What began as a bottle and barrel business has evolved into a comprehensive rigid packaging resource offering stock and custom packaging, design, engineering, global sourcing, warehousing, inventory management, logistics, supplier coordination, and supply chain support.
That evolution gives customers access to far more than the capabilities of a single packaging manufacturer.
Why Does 120 Years of Packaging Experience Matter?
Longevity matters when the experience behind it helps customers make better packaging decisions, solve problems faster, and build stronger supply chains.
Deep Supplier Relationships
Decades of industry relationships give Empire access to packaging suppliers, technologies, materials, and manufacturing capabilities across a broad global network.
Experience Solving Problems
Packaging challenges involving performance, availability, cost, compatibility, manufacturing, and logistics benefit from experience across many different products and suppliers.
Long-Term Perspective
Empire focuses on building packaging programs and customer relationships designed to create value beyond a single transaction.
What Does Empire EMCO Do Today?
Today, Empire EMCO helps manufacturers and brands solve rigid packaging challenges by bringing sourcing, technical expertise, supplier relationships, inventory solutions, and supply chain support together through one packaging partner.
Stock Packaging
Source bottles, jars, containers, closures, and other rigid packaging components through an extensive supplier network.
Custom Packaging
Develop packaging around your product, brand, performance, production, and supply requirements.
Design & Engineering
Move packaging concepts from idea through structural development, prototyping, tooling, supplier selection, and production.
Global Sourcing
Match projects with qualified packaging suppliers across different regions, materials, technologies, and manufacturing processes.
Warehousing & Inventory
Develop customized stocking, JIT, min/max, warehousing, fulfillment, and inventory programs around customer requirements.
Packaging Problem Solving
Evaluate alternatives when cost, availability, compatibility, performance, production, or supply chain challenges arise.
What Hasn't Changed Since 1906?
Packaging technology changes. Materials change. Manufacturing changes. Supply chains change. The principles behind a strong packaging partnership do not.
Relationships
Long-term partnerships with customers and suppliers remain at the center of how Empire EMCO does business.
Problem Solving
The goal isn't simply to sell a package. It's to help customers identify the right solution for the challenge.
Customer Support
Responsive service and ongoing account support continue after packaging has moved into production.
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120 Years of Experience. Your Next Packaging Challenge.
Whether you need an existing package, a custom solution, a new supplier, or help strengthening your packaging supply chain, our team is ready to help.
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