International Paper, the world's largest packaging firm by sales, was created in 1898 in the New York hamlet of Corinth by a combination of 20 pulp and paper companies. After being purchased by the International Paper and Power Corporation in 1941, it reverted to its previous name.

International Paper is a leading global maker of sustainable fiber-based packaging and pulp products, with production facilities in North America, Latin America, North Africa, and Europe. They make corrugated packaging that protects and promotes commodities while facilitating worldwide commerce, as well as pulp for diapers, tissue, and other personal hygiene items that are good for your health. They employ about 38,000 people and have its headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee. Net sales for 2020 were $21 billion.

The company gathers, uses, and sells nearly six million tonnes of all recovered paper in the United States each year, making it one of the country's major recyclers of recovered office paper and corrugated boxes.

Founded: 1898
Headquarters: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Revenue: 20.58 billion USD (2020)
Website: https://www.internationalpaper.com/

WestRock, a fellow paper packaging behemoth and the industry's second-largest revenue generator, reported net sales of $18.2 billion in 2019. At the start of 2015, the company was formed by a "definitive merger agreement" between packaging giants Rock-Tenn Company and MeadWestvaco Corporation.

In May 2015, the newly formed business, which had a combined equity worth of $16 billion at the time of the acquisition, was given the name WestRock, and the merger was finalized two months later. Corrugated containers, containerboard, paperboard, and cartons are among the pulp-based goods produced by the company.

WestRock now employs 51,100 people worldwide in over 320 factories, design centers, research labs, and sales offices. Steven Voorhees, the Atlanta-based firm's CEO, has been in charge since the merger.

WestRock has a long history of innovation, leadership, and business ventures. During this time, there have been game-changing innovations in papermaking, packaging design, and retail solutions. WestRock focuses on partnering with clients to help them win on all fronts by offering an unrivaled array of paper and packaging goods. WestRock focuses on working with brands to help them win across the board by providing an unbeatable portfolio of paper and packaging products. With operations around the world and expertise in every shopping category, WestRock focuses on working with brands to help them win across the board by providing an unbeatable portfolio of paper and packaging products.

Founded: 2015
Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Revenue: 17.579 billion USD

Website: https://www.westrock.com/

Crown is a global leader in consumer and industrial packaging items and equipment design, production, and marketing. Crown's consumer packaging offerings include steel and aluminum cans for food, beverage, household, and other consumer products, glass bottles for beverage products, metal vacuum closures, and steel crowns, which are sold to the soft drink, food, citrus, brewing, household products, personal care, and other industries through Crown's sales organization. Crown's industrial packaging products include steel and plastic strap consumables and equipment, paper-based protective packaging, and plastic film consumables and equipment for the metals, food and beverage, construction, agricultural, corrugated, and general industries.

By 1977, it had grown to become the world's largest can and crown manufacturer outside of the United States, with 60 factories. Crown conducted a series of acquisitions between 1989 and 1997, increasing sales from $1.9 billion to more than $8 billion.

As of December 31, 2018, the Company employed over 33,000 people and operated 241 facilities, as well as sales and service sites, in 47 countries. The company's overall net revenues in 2018 were $11.2 billion, with 72 percent coming from operations outside of the US.

The corporation executed a $3.2 billion refinancing plan around the turn of the century, establishing Crown Holdings as a new public holding company. It offers a wide range of packaging goods, including aerosol cans, beverage packaging, closures and capping, and food cans, as well as promotional and transportation packaging.

Founded: 1892
Headquarters: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Revenue: 11.5 billion USD

Website: https://www.crowncork.com/

Ball Firm is an American corporation established in Broomfield, Colorado. It is well-known for producing glass jars, lids, and other canning-related things in the early 1900s. Since its founding in Buffalo, New York, in 1880, when it was known as the Wooden Jacket Can Company, the Ball firm has grown and expanded into many economic pursuits, including aerospace technology. It went on to become the world's largest manufacturer of recyclable metal drinking and food containers.

Ball Corporation, presently situated in Broomfield, Colorado, was not known as a metal beverage and aerosol packaging creator until 1969, when it was renamed.

Ball Corporation delivers creative and sustainable packaging solutions to beverage, personal care, and home product clients, as well as aerospace and other technologies and services primarily for the US government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ about 21,500 people worldwide and estimate net revenues of $11.8 billion in 2020.

Founded: 1880
Headquarters: Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Revenue: 11.78 billion USD
Website: https://www.ball.com/Home

Berry Global, ranked 358 on the Fortune 500 list, with net sales of $8.8 billion in 2019, up more than $1 billion from the previous year.

Imperial Plastics was founded in 1967 in Evansville, Indiana, as an injection molding firm before branching out into the plastic container industry in 1972. Jack Berry Sr bought the company and renamed it Berry Plastics before selling it to an investment vehicle headed by First Atlantic Capital seven years later.

Berry Global was founded in 2012 and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker code BERY. In 2017, the company changed its name to Berry Global. The firm specializes in flexible and rigid plastic packaging, and it develops solutions for the food, shrink, and grocery industries.

It also makes beverages cups, bottles, closures, overcaps, medications and vials, as well as jars, tubes, and strawless lids. The company, which employs 48,000 people worldwide, has more than 290 facilities in Europe, Africa, Oceania, and North and South America. Tom Salmon, the business's chief executive officer and director chairman of the board, leads the corporation.

Founded: 1967

Headquarters: Evansville, Indiana, United States

Revenue: 11.709 billion USD

Website: https://www.berryglobal.com/