Every day, we come to work with the shared purpose to enhance businesses and to enrich lives. INDEVCO North America is committed to being the trusted partner that innovates, manufactures, and delivers quality products and services that protect the long-term sustainability of our people, our customers, our suppliers, our communities, and the environment.
Corporate Philosophy
“What is good for the community is good for the company. What is good for the company, we will strive to do excellently and in a way that enriches the lives of our people. The objective of each member company will be to resolve one or more of the problems, which now hamper the social and economic development of the community. They will demonstrate that private companies with social spirit can, in some areas, contribute more effectively than government institutions. In solving these problems they can also be profitable and finance their own growth.”
Georges N. Frem
Founder of INDEVCO
INDEVCO Promise
INNOVATION
where you need it
We take an intentional approach to innovation, putting your needs at the center of our thinking.
PERFORMANCE
you can rely on
By partnering with you, we deliver reliable solutions that protect your products wherever they go.
SERVICE
that goes beyond
We make your purpose our own and foster strong working relationships built on transparency and trust.
CARE
for the world around us
We believe we have a higher purpose to care for the communities in which we live and for the environment on which we rely.
History
In the 40-plus years that INDEVCO has maintained a presence in North America, generations of employees have raised their families, served customers through hard work and commitment, and played important roles in their local communities.
1982
INDEVCO Group founder, Georges Frem, sees opportunity in the US, when the privately-owned industrial group he was building with his three brothers purchases a paper mill in Georgia, along with several corrugated converting plants in the eastern US.
These modest operations offered ideal capabilities and locations. The Frem brothers’ strong desire to create both jobs and value was directly related to limiting urban migration and helping people stay in their hometowns.
To them, community involvement was key to business success.
Over the next three decades, Interstate Resources, Inc. would grow into one of the largest independently owned, vertically integrated paper and corrugated packaging groups in the US, managing forestland and producing timber, lumber, kraft linerboard, recycled corrugating medium, corrugated sheets and corrugated packaging.
2015
INDEVCO diversifies by opening INDEVCO Plastics, a blown film extrusion plastics manufacturing plant in Longview, Texas, in close proximity to petrochemical processing plants throughout the state and into Louisiana.
INDEVCO Plastics joins sister companies within Napco National and INDEVCO Group as the largest global supplier of heavy-duty form-fill-seal (FFS) bags to the petrochemical industry.
2017
London-based DS Smith enters the US market when it acquires Interstate Resources, Inc.
INDEVCO North America also becomes a shareholder in ePac Flexible Packaging – a disruptive digital-print flexible packaging company serving brands of all sizes with fast speed-to-market and low minimums.
INDEVCO North America headquarters shifts from Arlington, Virginia to the group’s industrial complex in Doswell, Virginia, north of Richmond, where it retains Barricade Building Products brand manufacturer and Specialty Coating & Laminating operations.
2021
INDEVCO North America invests $25M in a new INDEVCO Plastics location, a 100,000-square-foot industrial facility in Orangeburg, SC that creates 50 jobs and produces plastic flexible packaging.
INDEVCO Plastics Longview (TX) further commits $9.5M to capital investment and 18 new jobs over a three-year period.
INDEVCO Recycling Solutions launches plastic scrap and packaging waste recycling services for key customers to use regenerated post-industrial recycled (PIR) and post-consumer recycled (PCR) resins in customer, creating a circular economy for customers and and decreasing their environmental impacts.
2023
INDEVCO North America acquires Perma R Products, Inc., a building envelope materials brand manufacturer with plants in Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee. These plants are integrated with Barricade Building Products within INDEVCO Building Products Division.
All manufacturing facilities across 6 states operate as “doing business as” (DBA) INDEVCO North America. INDEVCO Plastics and Specialty Coating & Laminating join together as INDEVCO Packaging Solutions Division plants.
As we evolve, INDEVCO North America’s commitment to local communities and the people within them will continue to provide the foundation for our companies-guiding our business principles, practices, and overall sense of purpose.